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TIL the used car dealership that berated and tried to get a pizza delivery guy fired for a $7 tip was forced to pay $450k to customers for defective and unsafe vehicles.

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GYk6j TIL that Samoa never had a December 30, 2011 because they moved from the eastern side of the international dateline to the western side on December 29, therefore skipping a day. Employers were still required to pay their staff for December 30 even though it never existed.
jpNv TIL In Wolfenstein RPG’s last level,the Nazis summon the Harbinger of Doom. BJ rips off the demon’s hand and leg and sends it back to hell,where it promises to return and haunt BJ’s descendants.The demon returns with metal arm and leg in DOOM ,who’s protagonist is thought to be a descendant of B.J.
gVoL TIL When Charles Manson didn’t receive any gifts for Christmas one year he responded by stealing all of his classmates toys and burning them.
0wK6v TIL that after the Six Day War, Egypt closed down the Suez Canal in 1967 with 15 ships still on it. They remained stuck there for eight years, with the boat crew members forming the Great Bitter Lake Association. The GBLA had social clubs, its own version of an Olympics, and even stamps.
78V5O TIL of the British warship the HMS Shannon that captured the USS Chesapeake during The War of 1812. The Shannon’s unimpressive appearance which was on the expressed order of the captain Philip Broke, fooled the enemy into vastly underestimating her highly well trained crew.