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TIL After A SendGrid employee publicly humiliated a software developer for joking with another developer at a conference, and got him fired, SendGrid itself was attacked by a DDOS and ended up firing her

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GY1nQ TIL when Matt Groening was asked about future ambitions regarding “The Simpsons” he said, “My ultimate goal is to offend every country in the world.”
P1xmO TIL Gibraltar was awarded city status in 1842 but it was officially recognised only in 2022 after it was discovered by researchers in the National Archives
Rdnw TIL the number of syllables per line in the lyrics to Tool’s song “Lateralus” correspond to an arrangement of the Fibonacci numbers
xV8VB TIL of the ancient Greek stoic philosopher Chrysippus of Soli, who initiated the success of Stoicism. He died of laughter at the age of 73 after witnessing a donkey eating his figs.
b64wa TIL that Roman Polanski was originally going to plead guilty to charges in return for no jail. However, after hearing the judge was planning to go back on his word and jail him, Polanski fled the United States never to return.