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TIL when Amazon.com launched, you could order a negative quantity of books from Amazon and receive a credit from them. (See Video at 0:45)

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OGPg6 TIL that after the USS Thresher submarine sank & imploded in 1963 due to construction and engineering oversights, an admiral remarked: "...it is important that we re-evaluate our present practices where, in the desire to make advancements, we may have forsaken the fundamentals of good engineering."
jBVj TIL that Pizza Hut’s Stuffed Crust Pizza, McDonald’s McGriddles and Dollar Menu, and the Smashburger restaurant chain were all developed by the same guy
OX9X TIL in 1972, a British nutritionist published a book called Pure, White & Deadly in which he warns about the dangers of sugar and advises following a low-carbohydrate diet for weight loss. It would take over 40 years for his work to be recognized by other scientists.
8ymb TIL there is a Canadian cartel which controls roughly 70% of the world’s maple syrup production. It allocates production, sets prices, and maintains a strategic reserve of 40 million pounds of syrup to protect against market fluctuations.
4kBXb TIL that in 2009 the US launched a satellite so secret that no government agency admits to owning it. Even the name, "Palladium at Night", is mysterious.