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TIL Boeings own QA staff sued the company for deliberately using cheaper sub-standard parts.. and lost because the FAA gave Boeing a clean chit

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YrAd TIL that Finland celebrates “National Sleepy Head Day”, where the last person to in the house to wake up is thrown into water by the early risers.
0dZpj TIL 1968 Night of the Living Dead premiered in the afternoon when children and parents often attended. Thinking the movie would be 'delightfully horror', by the time the movie ended, the theatre and children were still, with some crying, for many, it was the first time ever seeing the hero die
AWAB TiL:People didn’t empty chamber pots into the streets in the middle ages.
8exWb TIL: Apple Watch sales in 2020 amounted to ~$30.6bn compared to the whole Swiss watch market exports of ~$16bn.
bgj0 TIL its illegal for drug companies to advertise to consumers almost everywhere in the world. The only exceptions are the US and New Zealand.