Post * D1QnD — Curious Curator

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TIL of a business management style where the manager wanders around in an unstructured manner, through the workplace, at random, to check with employees, equipment, or on the status of ongoing work. It's officially called "Management by Wandering Around"

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WkBRY TIL Lincoln once reviewed 303 death warrants for Santee Dakota Natives convicted of killing farmers. He approved 39. The Governor of Minnesota then told Lincoln he should have approved all of them for more support in 1864 election. Lincoln responded with "I could not afford to hang men for votes"

y89a TIL that rats in Iran grew so big that snipers had to be deployed to combat the cat sized rats.

VBnO4 TIL in early 19th century Spanish overseas expansion and Russian expansion moving south by land from Alaska, met in California. Fort Ross was the southernmost Russian settlement, located in modern day Sonoma County

YpnVG TIL that the "Keep Calm and Carry On" poster from WW2 Britain was never widely distributed during the war, and only became famous when a bookseller found an original poster in a box of old books in 2000, and commercialized it.

Yp4Dr TIL that the Weights & Measures Services in Virginia is responsible for the inspection and testing of all commercially used weighing and measuring equipment including gasoline dispensers, grocery scales, scanners, vehicle scales, liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) meters and vehicle tank meters.