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W7D1Y TIL in 2007 Best Buy admitted it used a secret intranet site that showed higher prices than the ones customers found at the main site. One way the secret site was used was to trick customers into coming into the store by showing sales online that were discovered to not exist once physically there.
9wKBp TIL Former US first lady Jane Pierce was extremely reluctant to move into the White House. Before her husband Franklin Pierce became president, she prayed every night that he would lose the presidential election. She is said to have fainted upon hearing the news of his nomination.
ZpE6D TIL: That the flames we see in fire are literally just glowing gasses coming off of whatever's burning- producing light due to the sheer amount of energy exciting the electrons within.
R7E5j TIL that New Mexico was the original Sunshine State, unofficially using the slogan prior to statehood in 1912 and eventually adding it to their state license plates in 1932. However, they never made anything official, and Florida managed to adopt an official resolution and steal the slogan in 1970.
b6v49 TIL the writer of Scream, I Know What You Did Last Summer, and The Faculty also created Dawson’s Creek