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TIL Xerox has an “adopt a plant” program where employees water an office plant, saving the company $200,000 per year on watering services.

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Y7gYr TIL - in 1973, Mick Jagger (Rolling Stones) wrote the song “Starfucker”, after Carly Simon released her hit song “You’re So Vain”. Jagger had an affair with Simon, who was married to James Taylor at the time, and the affair ended a few months before her song was released.
R7Lba TIL that the Caesar Salad was not named for Julius Caesar but rather for it’s inventor, an Italian restaurateur named Cesare Cardini who created the salad in his restaurant in Tijuana, Mexico in 1924
Oj8g TIL there is a shade of blue that can’t be detected by graphics arts cameras, which layout editors use to write/draw notes directly on the thing they’re editing
b9677 TIL in 2009, a woman was fined $1.9 million for illegally downloading 24 songs. That's $80K per song.
eADJ TIL that J.S. Bach wrote a piece of music designed to be played backwards or forwards, or both at the same time. The score is a Möbius strip.