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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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vPl14 TIL about the Shitbox Rally, an Australian long distance motoring event that raises money for cancer research. Each car in the rally has to cost less than $950 USD and can't be AWD/4WD. The Rally has raised almost $30 million USD so far.
xV1w1 TIL that when underdog Iceland reached the quarter-final of the 2016 Euro Cup, 10% of Iceland’s population traveled to France for the game. The coach was also a dentist.
KYMaG TIL: Douglas MacArthur wanted to use atomic bombs to contain China and ultimately win the Korean War.
GB55 TIL the longest American Presidential Inauguration was William Henry Harrison; over 2 hours and 8000+ words. He died a month later of pneumonia.
GYZmG TIL Michigan has a bottle deposit of 10 cents, instead of the usual 5 cents. Their recycle rate is 97%, compared to 70% of states with bottle deposits, compared to 33% for states without any deposit laws