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TIL that the longest serving employee of a company is Walter Orthmann who started his job at a textiles company in Brazil in 1938 and is still there.

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kAMW TIL the film ‘Back to the Future’ provides the OED’s earliest recorded example of a colloquial sense of ‘hello’, used to imply (sometimes disbelievingly or sarcastically) that the person addressed is not paying attention, has not understood something, or has said something nonsensical or foolish.
M7PY8 TIL about Robert Carter III who in 1791 through 1803 set about freeing all 400-500 of his slaves. He then hired them back as workers and then educated them. His family, neighbors and government did everything to stop him including trying to tar and feather him and drove him from his home.
ydWV TIL shoes were not left or right specific until 1800.
nKBG TIL that in the United States average wages haven’t grown since 1964 (adjusted for inflation)