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8V4b TIL A man named Dan Goodwin climbed the north World Trade Center tower in 1983 to call attention to the inability to rescue trapped occupants from the upper levels of skyscrapers.
X0GdQ TIL there is no official Calvin and Hobbes merchandise besides the compilation books. Bill Watterson was vehemently against merchandising his characters and even went as far as to say, "Only thieves and vandals have made money on Calvin and Hobbes merchandise."
m1DNy TIL a 2023 survey of more than 1,000 hiring managers found that nearly 40% admitted to lying to candidates in job interviews. And in most cases, it worked: 92% of the managers that admitted lying said a candidate they had lied to accepted their job offer.
X7aD TIL historically the Jews were never slaves in Egypt, and therefore Exodus is an archetypal myth about the process of revolution.
PYrXw TIL of Viper. A rapper that released a full album a day for almost a full year in 2014. To date he's released over 1500 albums, although only 15 of those actually consist of original material.