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TIL of professional "fired men" that were used as department store scapegoats who were fired several times a day to please costumers who were disgruntled about some error

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BgN6b TIL that Aaliyah released her first LP at 15, titled "Age Ain't Nothing but a Number" ...written and produced by R. Kelly
8ReX TIL of Captain Canuck, a superhero who lives in the futuristic world of 1993, where “Canada had become the most powerful country in the world.”
D1JNe TIL Zack Snyder has never seen the theatrical cut of Justice League, a movie he is credited with as sole director. He left the project after a family tragedy in 2017 while the film was in post-production. He is currently working on his own director’s cut of the film to be released on HBO next year.
R7Y58 TIL In 2016 a company crowdfunded a fake video game console. The company used tape and cardboard with an Atari Jaguar shell and an SNES motherboard to show it off at a trade show. After confronted they were unable to produce a working prototype and canceled the console.
X8RD TIL about Bastoy, the Norwegian prison that treats inmates kindly with guards who act like social workers, and boasts a 16% reoffending rate (compared to 70% elsewhere in Europe and the US).