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TIL That Swatch, the swiss watch company, doesn’t really mean “Swiss watch” but “Second watch”

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d8b6r TIL the Stephen King book, The Tommyknockers, was loosely based on a creature from the folklore of Cornish miners. To some, knockers were malevolent spirits who knocked on supports to cause a cave-in. To others, the knocking a way of warning the miners that a collapse was imminent.
l0lr TIL the model for Rosie the Riveter worked as a riveter for only a couple weeks before quitting and marrying a dentist
4XL56 TIL that since the 1960s in New York City, the price of a slice of pizza has been roughly the same as the price of a subway ride causing economists to create the term 'The Pizza Principle'
b9rXQ TIL in 2018, a kitten named Pawfficer Donut was sworn in to the Troy, Michigan PD's "Feline Unit" to perform community outreach for the department as well as raise awareness for animal adoption. She replaced another police cat named Pawfficer Badges who got feline leukemia.
loRN TIL Gangster, Al Capone started one of the first Soup Kitchens during the Great Depression for the unemployed.