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TIL if you work for CLIF Bar you get 2 and ½ hours of paid excercise a week with free personal training, among other benefits.

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oVpR TIL: Swedish warship Vasa, it sank in 1628 and was recovered from the ocean in 1961 almost completely intact. This is the only remaining intact ship from the 1600’s. This ship is housed in The Vasa Museum in Stockholm Sweden. A museum built around the ship.
ANY6B TIL that after the highly influential singing group "The Ink Spots" broke up in the 1950s, so many former members and even non-members used "The Ink Spots" group name that in 1967, a Federal Judge ruled that it had become Public Domain and was free for anyone to use. Over 100 groups have done so.
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v1ZKL TIL in an early draft of Back to the Future, the time machine was a refrigerator. It was changed because Robert Zemeckis was afraid kids would imitate the film and get trapped.