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TIL that Riga built a community for blind people

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OGy7R TIL When Tom Petty finished his album Full Moon Fever label head Irv Azoff refused to release it, insisting there were no hits on it. After he quit the album was released and spawned 5 hit singles, 3 of which went to #1, and went 5X platinum. The album had contributions from the Travelling Wilburys
WkYrY TIL that “jay” was slang for an inexperienced fool in the early 1900s, hence the origin of the term “jaywalking”.
ry94 TIL that there is a sausage restaurant in Regensburg, Germany which is in business since 900 years. That means they were selling sausages well before the Inca Empire existed and are still serving 6,000 sausages a day.
nelyd TIL that the snow in 'The Wizard of Oz' was asbestos. The Wicked Witch’s broom was made of asbestos, as was the Scarecrow’s entire outfit despite the fact that asbestos’ health risks were already known at the time in 1939.
MBW7 TIL toilet paper companies are increasing margins by 1) shrinking the size of each “square” 2) increasing the size of the tube 3) shrinking the width of the roll and 4) decreasing the number of sheets per roll, all to make up for other paper products’ sales falling