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TIL Happy Hour is illegal in Ireland since 2003

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Zk6B TIL the founder of Macy’s, Rowland Hussey, who was a Quaker, is credited with inventing the price tag. Quakers believed it was immoral to barter - charging people different prices for the same product. Also, price tags made it easier to expand and quickly hire new sales people.
d01E TIL in 1990, a 15-yo Kuwaiti girl testified to US Congress that Kuwaiti babies were being taken out of their incubators by Iraqi soldiers and left to die. It was later revealed that she was the daughter of a US ambassador & that her testimony was part of a PR campaign to sell the war to the public.
9ARB TIL Sharon Osbourne sold all of Ozzy Osbournes cars when she found out he was drinking and driving
wbNM TIL nothing rots at the bottom of the ocean
9wBR7 TIL that there are small groups in Britain and France trying to revive the early medieval Celtic Church via the Syriac (Middle Eastern) rites. At one point in the ‘60s, the so-called “Celtic Orthodox Church” had “ten bishops and two to three lay followers”.