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TIL about MiniScribe, a hard drive manufacturing company from the '80s who tried to cover up an inventory shortage by packing 26,000 bricks into hard drive boxes and shipping them to their distributor.

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m18MY TIL that 65% of cancer survivors surveyed by war on cancer said that they had been ghosted by friends or family after their diagnosis.
grjb TIL the first aircraft to be intentionally shot down by another aircraft went down on October 5, 1914, when the observer in one plane shot the pilot in another plane with a hand gun.
JY7dv TIL In 1896 the speed limit was 2mph and the first ever speeding ticket was handed to someone hurtling along at...8mph. There was a 5 mile police chase with the policeman pursuing on a bike. The driver also failed to have someone waving a red flag walk in front of the car to warn of his approach.
rb44 TIL that Winston Churchill entered the UK Parliament in 1900 as a Conservative. He defected to the Liberal Party in 1904 but returned to the Conservatives in 1924, saying “Anyone can rat, but it takes a certain ingenuity to re-rat.”
EgZKW TIL The first Toy Story film (1995) required 800,000 machine hours and 114,240 frames of animation in total, divided between 1,561 shots that totaled over 77 minutes. Pixar was able to render less than 30 seconds of the film per day.