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TIL Adidas refuses business partnerships with any organization that has ties to Scientology; including a contract clause for existing partnerships that states, “any organization or association which represents the principles of L. Ron Hubbard will be void."

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e0915 TIL Murgatroyd - as in "Heavens to Murgatroyd!" - is a family name and not some nonsense made up for Snagglepuss
M7gjm TIL research found precise numerical first offers to be more effective in negotiations.
grWoy TIL In the 20th century there was a female gang called the Forty Elephants.Due to conventional ideas of femininity that women were weaker than men,courts believed it impossible women were orchestrators of crime.Most women were assumed to have played supporting roles and received lesser sentences.
V5Zk TIL the donating public, not big foundations or corporations, is responsible for roughly 90% of all donations in the US
oRxV7 TIL about the only double barrel cannon in the world. When it was its first tested during the American Civil War, the chain snapped immediately and one ball tore into a nearby cabin, knocking down its chimney; the other spun off erratically and struck a nearby cow, killing it instantly.