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TIL Industry, California is a city in California with only 219 residents, but over 3,000 businesses and 67,000 workers.

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ZK8Q TIL: Amazon’s profits for its entire existence are still less than what ExxonMobil takes home every 2.5 weeks.
KYr1R TIL The liking gap—the idea that individuals you meet like you more than you realize. Researchers discovered that "people systematically underestimated how much their conversation partners liked them and enjoyed their company."
OoAeX TIL that from 1897 until 1996 the federal government had a board of tea testers whose job was to make sure that imported tea was good enough to be sold in the US.
YpoP TIL that several airlines who aired the movie “Rain Man” deleted the sequence in which Raymond reels off statistics on airline accidents, except for Quantas, who even promoted one of the movie’s writers to first class once when he traveled on their airline.
KOpjR TIL Giuseppe Piazzi, following his discovery of the Dwarf Planet Ceres, had difficulty tracking its position given the lack of data. Carl Friedrich Gauss, upon hearing this, worked for three months on the problem and successfully predicted its position within half a degree a year after discovery.