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TIL Ulysses Grant wrote his memoir while he was bankrupt and terminally ill. Mark Twain developed marketing strategy including Union veterans selling books in uniform. Eventually it became one of the bestselling books of the century.

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d8rwQ TIL: Native Americans created a universal sign language that allowed 2/3 of all Indigenous tribes to communicate across most of North America, hundreds of years before Europeans invented a sign language of their own.
4YGw TIL Paul McCartney played celery on a Beach Boys song
O054 TIL that when George Lucas’s neighbors objected to him building a film production facility on his property as it would increase traffic, Lucas decided he would sell the land to a developer to bring “low income housing” to the area.
ANO04 TIL The NES Zapper Gun worked by turning the screen black and placing a white box around the target. The gun had a light sensor which detected the light from the white box. If it detected light, you hit the target.
57n8 TIL of the European Working Time Directive. It is illegal to average more than 48hrs of work per week. A minimum of 20 days holiday pa and payment in lieu of holiday not allowed.