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TIL that the American Family Association demanded that Home Depot “stop supporting the gay agenda”. Unlike Lowe’s who bowed to AFA pressure a few months earlier, Home Depot refused and suffered an AFA boycott. During the next quarter, Home Depot’s profits increased by 6.1%.

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BgwZy TIL The quintessential renaissance man, Leonardo Da Vinci, never had the standard scholary education of his time. He only taught himself some latin, had no formal maths education until he was 40+ and didn't study the classics, thus traditional scholars scoffed at his observational scientific method
yRJa TIL Toy Story 2 was accidently deleted. But was saved by an employee who had been working from home so she could look after her newborn daughter and had a copy of the film on her home computer
kJdx7 TIL Federico da Montefeltro lost one of his eyes in a tournament so he had the bridge of his nose removed to increase the field of vision of his remaining eye.
LkYp TIL that the first thing Buzz Aldrin did upon stepping foot on the moon was to hold a communion service but NASA kept it a secret because they were “still smarting from the lawsuit filed by Madalyn Murray O'Hair” regarding the Genesis readings on Apollo 8.
mxo1R TIL that cows have best friends. In a study to identify factors affecting milk yields, researchers noticed that cows form attachments to specific individuals in their herd. When these cows are together, indicators of stress in both noticeably reduce.