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TIL that South Africans call Traffic Lights “Robots”.

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jNw9M TIL George Lucas approved of Mel Brooks’ Star Wars parody Spaceballs and signed off on a fair use agreement. The only condition was that no Spaceballs merchandise would be made to compete with Star Wars merchandise. This is why there’s never been any Spaceballs figures, cereal, or flamethrower.
4Y5w TIL that due to popular misconceptions, US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration keeps a webpage explaining “Why don’t we try to destroy tropical cyclones by nuking them”
Wor8 TIL: since 2006 US retail companies have cut 1,000,000 full time positions and added 500,000 part time positions.
JxWl TIL One of Amazon’s earliest employees brought his Corgi, Rufus, to work each day. He became such a fixture that the company named a building after him and allows employees to bring their dogs to work. Amazon has over 2,000 four legged “employees”, averaging nearly 600 per day.
GA7nj TIL about the Mariko Aoki phenomenon - also known as “book bowels” or “library poops”