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TIL One of Amazon’s earliest employees brought his Corgi, Rufus, to work each day. He became such a fixture that the company named a building after him and allows employees to bring their dogs to work. Amazon has over 2,000 four legged “employees”, averaging nearly 600 per day.

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x9D7 TIL 14th US President Franklin Pierce, When the Democratic party decided not to re-nominate Pierce after his first term in office, he told reporters, “There’s nothing left but to get drunk.”
jN5xj TIL that in the Middle Ages bestiality was compared to homosexuality not to make homosexuality look bad, but rather to malign bestiality (previously seen as a minor sin akin to masturbation)
D11mr TIL the GoT & West World Theme songs were created by the same composer.
VrR0 TIL when Einstein was told of the publication of a book entitled, ‘100 Authors Against Einstein’, he replied: “Why one hundred? If I were wrong, one would have been enough.”