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TIL Charles Boycott, an English land agent, was so hated by the community he became a verb.

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1avvW TIL that Ole Kirk Christiansen, a Danish carpenter, suffered huge losses after a fire broke out in his woodworking shop that made furniture. He descended into bankruptcy & decided to start making small wood items, including toys. He even renamed his company to 'leg godt' ('play well') or Lego.
E15v7 TIL that United States Army had a tactical deception unit called "Ghost Army" during the WW2, it consisted of 1100 soldiers, their job was to deceive the enemy by inflatable tanks, sound trucks, and fake radio transmissions.
EgkeW TIL that 66% of U.S. teachers feel they are not adequately paid, which is significantly higher than the 39% of working adults who feel the same way. They also work 15 more hours on average than required by contract.
LD4Z TIL In 2009, The Sun attacked Gordon Brown for misspelling the name of a soldier killed in Afghanistan, but in doing so misspelled the name themselves
v1lW7 TIL A group of students in Iran spent years reconstructing thousands of shredded CIA secret documents, and subsequently published them