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TIL the lock and unlock blinkers on your car are based on the syllables in the words lock and unlock.

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R57jl TIL about the Financial Modeling World Cup, which is essentially the World Cup for Competitive excel users. Participants solve real-life case studies by building financial models in Microsoft Excel. $25,000 prize fund.
1dLd TIL that in 2000, a meat department at a Walmart in Texas became the first store to unionize. Within two weeks Walmart eliminated all meat department positions and switched to pre-packaged meats.
16RQO TIL Alfred Jackson, who was Pres. Andrew Jackson’s slave, was born in the Hermitage, lived his whole life there even after he was freed, worked as a tour guide of the place, had his funeral in the mansion and was also buried there, next to Pres. Jackson’s tomb
xVRvk TIL about Kim Noble, an artist with over 100 multiple personalities, over a dozen of which have highly distinctive artistic styles, such that art critics were astonished that such range of stylized renderings could come from only one person.
7egr TIL that since January 1st, drivers can legally flash their lights at other cars to warn them of police speed traps in Florida.