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TIL McDonald's trademarked McJobs in 1984 as training for handicapped people. Now, they protest or threaten legal action for dictionaries who've defined it as a dead-end job. They even tried to get their workers to petition those dictionaries, but workers refused and agreed with current definitions.

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kOyv7 TIL that a man bet his friend that he could make any house famous. To accomplish this, he wrote thousands of letters requesting services at 54 Berners Street. So many people showed up on the day that parts of London were shut down. The man (who watched it unfold from across the street) won the bet.
wOkP TIL that last November three people drowned trying to save a dog being swept away in ocean currents off the California coast. The dog made it to safety by itself.
695d8 TIL in all regions of the world some people used to eat soil and many still do that today
98XQ TIL that a British officer, wearing a monocle in Egypt during WW1, was confronted on the parade ground by lines of Australians with pennies in their eyes, threw his monocle up in the air, caught it in his eye, then turned to the parade and roared, ‘All right, you bastards, let’s see you do that.’
4kpla TIL British outrage at the sentencing of a white Kenyan settler to just two years' imprisonment for the 1923 killing of a black employee eventually led to the replacement of the colony's legal code.