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Today I learned that the internet slang, 'goat' means Greatest of All Time

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6EYll TIL of the murder of Emmett Till and that the two men accused of his murder and were acquitted, then admitted to the murder but were protected by the Double Jeopardy laws.
8anV4 TIL that Spirit Airlines once had a person in charge of writing apology letters to disappointed customers. The "senior manager of proactive customer communications" mailed off about 20,000 apologies a year. Each one explained what went wrong on a flight and contained the manager's direct phone line.
PXWO TIL that the main programmer responsible for writing and maintaining the GNU Privacy Guard (used by journalists and security professionals) almost went broke, but he received funding from Facebook, The Linux Foundation and Stripe after an internet article pointed out his dire financial situation.
M7KwV TIL that Dennis Rader, the serial killer known as BTK, worked at ADT Security Services from 1974 to 1988, where he installed security alarms as part of his job, in many cases for homeowners concerned about the BTK killings.
4xWN TIL there is a 100-year-old organization dedicated to bringing the metric system to the US and tomorrow starts “Metric Week”