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TIL that Google prefers dogs to cats. Their code of conduct specifically states that they are a dog company.

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0jOL TIL the “Duds” in the name of the candy Milk Duds is because the original goal was to have perfectly round pieces of candy, but the machines the company had at the time couldn’t quite do it.
xV15g TIL a study found that about one in five corporate executives are psychopaths – roughly the same rate found among prisoners.
VMM88 TIL It’s illegal to whistle in Petrolia, Ontario
5YlNQ TIL of George Koval, who, in WWII, was an American soldier that secretly gave info the USSR about the Manhattan Project. In 1999, although living in Russia and having been outed as a spy for nearly a half-century, he applied for an American Veteran's Social Security Cheque. He was denied.
KLDE TIL that Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom was banned in India for its racist portrayal of Indian People.