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TIL that in 2013 a woman sued her former employer after being fired for "gossping" in a gossip free workplace. Ironically, she had been complaining about her employers hiring/firing habits. She won

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58R8 TIL 2015 was the first year in over a decade without a death from fraternity related hazing
yQRow TIL that most of the nazi leadership scored exceptionally high on iq test conducted during the nuremberg trials. With Hermann Göring scoring 138 and Hjalmar Schacht 143.
oBBB7 TIL Van Halen put absurd requests like No Brown M&Ms into their contract to check to see if the venue actually read their tech & safety requirements thoroughly
5Y5Jk TIL Mormon founder Joseph Smith said that people lived on the moon, and the second Mormon prophet, Brigham Young, taught that people lived on the Sun
858G TIL the record for surviving the longest without food or liquids is held by someone who was forgotten by three policemen in a holding cell for 18 days