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TIL Jack Daniels employees get a free bottle on the first payday of each month.

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8Q4P TIL that in a competition to build the world’s tallest building, the architect of the Chrysler Building secretly built it with a 125 ft long spire inside of it. When his competitor’s building was completed, the spire was pushed up through the building making it taller by 119 ft
0LdR TIL that words such as moose, skunk, raccoon, pecan, and squash, all originate from the language of the now-extinct Algonquian tribe, which inhabited what is now Roanoke Island.
VDDp TIL that Julius Caesar and Cleopatra had a child together name Caesarion, which translates to “little caesar”
m6ZM TIL In 1920, J. R. R. Tolkien wrote letters to his children as Father Christmas, along with illustrations of his home near the North Pole, and planted it in the youngster’s bedroom. He wrote them until 1943, and with each passing year, his stories became more elaborate and character-filled.
4k4l6 TIL that the Nika Riots of 532 AD, which destroyed half of Constantinople and killed tens of thousands, began as chariot race hooliganism.