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TIL that Boeing was banned from bidding on contracts for US spy satellites after one of their contracts went over budget by at least $4 billion before it was ultimately cancelled and given to Lockheed Martin.

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pYBmp TIL that the homeownership rate is the proportion of households occupied by the owner divided by the total number of occupied households, so it does not actually reflect the % of human beings that rent - say you have 5 room mates. You only count as 1 "renter", the way the data usually presented
RbGl TIL Kraft Dinner is a Canadian only thing
JYxn1 TIL McDonald's trademarked McJobs in 1984 as training for handicapped people. Now, they protest or threaten legal action for dictionaries who've defined it as a dead-end job. They even tried to get their workers to petition those dictionaries, but workers refused and agreed with current definitions.
R7rP9 TIL Somali Pirates at one point had an investment firm. That’s right; you could invest in the Somali Pirates, and receive a cut of their loot if their plunder was successful.
Z8Gba TIL Many of the tropes we associate with superheroes were invented by a woman, Baroness Emma Orczy, who wrote The Scarlet Pimpernel in 1905