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TIL Zappos uses an organizational structure called holacracy, which removes traditional corporate hierarchy in favor of overlapping, self-governing "circles" to complete specific tasks.

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Z8wwv TIL that Mr Rodgers influenced the Supreme Court to allow the recording of TV shows, arguing that it allows parents to become “much more active in the programming of their family’s television life. Very frankly, I am opposed to people being programmed by others.”
NAYM TIL that in 2008 Detroit police used SWAT tactics to raid a party at an art museum. Guns drawn, they forced everyone to the floor before searching every attendee and confiscating over 40 vehicles… all because the museum didn’t have the right alcohol permit.
jNmWn TIL that in firing squads, one or more soldiers are given a magazine loaded with blanks so that each soldier can believe that they did not fire the fatal shot. For this reason, it is sometimes named the "conscience round"
a88bZ TIL Dolly Parton had the Robert F. Thomas Chapel built at her Dollywood theme park to honor the mountain doctor who delivered her for a sack of cornmeal.
x65xb TIL that in WW1 unarmed Scottish bagpipers would accompany battalions charging at the German trenches