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TIL Apple makes its employees work on dummy projects until they can be trusted.

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YXg7 TIL the Nickelodeon cartoon series, The Angry Beavers, is one of the only cartoons where a clock on the wall–visible in most episodes–updates in real time.
KOMX6 TIL that Taco Bell originally started out as a hotdog stand in 1948. Glen Bell, the founder, reverse engineered the taco recipe from a popular Mexican restaurant across the street. He then reopened as a taco stand that would later become Taco Bell.
7rJNP TIL: On May 24, 1626, Peter Minuit purchased the island of Manhattan for the equivalent of $24 worth of beads and trinkets.
6EMRw TIL Alexander J. Vilicky, a 19 year old modder, insulted Bethesda and said he could make much better DLC than them with a fraction of the resources. He then made The Falksaar Mod, which included almost 30 hours of new content. Because of this, Bungie had hired him as a developer at their studios.
oRRaR TIL the largest U.S. loss of life at sea was the HMS Rohna. This was hidden by the US to prevent the Nazis from knowing their remote guided missiles were effective.