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TIL Vending Machines Kill More People Than Sharks Every Year

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R5NLa TIL - Henry Ford's chief strikebreaker/union buster, Harry Bennett, was immediately fired after Ford's retirement in 1945. Bennett drew a gun on Jack Bugas who delivered the news. Bugas, a former FBI agent, then took out his own gun and threatened to shoot Bennett in the heart.
oRVDA TIL that the creators of Dragon Tales added a third kid named Enrique to the series in the third season, in an effort to educate preschoolers mildly in Hispanic culture
mxkAY TIL “in most wealthy countries, governments have simplified tax filing for its citizens, thus making software such as TurboTax unnecessary for most citizens”
MeEl8 TIL about Project Cybersyn, a cybernetics project under Chilean President Salvador Allende in the 1970s attempting to create a socialist computing system that would aid and guide state planning of Chile's state-run economy.
loEkV TIL the word "emoji" comes from the Japanese characters "e" (picture) and "moji" (letter or character), and has nothing to do with the English word "emotion"