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TIL you used to be able to call POP-CORN to get the current time

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5YXPQ TIL of the McNamara fallacy: choosing whether or not to do something solely based on statistics, and ignoring non-quantifiable confounding factors. It is named for US Defense Secretary Robert McNamara's assumption that a greater personnel count would have lead the US to victory against Vietnam.
mx9rM TIL In WW1 German saboteurs blew up munitions stored near NYC before the US entered the war. The ensuing blast damaged the Statue of Liberty.
rxm4 TIL that Kim Jong-un’s great-grandfather was a Korean independence activist and a devout Christian missionary.
Q7Ya TIL in 2007, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg commissioned David Choe to paint murals for their office. Although he thought the Facebook business model was “ridiculous and pointless,” Choe, an avid gambler, chose to receive stock in lieu of cash. His shares were valued at $200 million by Facebook’s IPO
4XbYa TIL someone bought the domain conspiracytheory.com and made it redirect to the Warner Brothers site.