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TIL there was a woman named Edith Macefeild who would not sell her house to make way for a commercial development project in Seattle. When she died, she willed the house to the leader of the construction project “in gratitude for the friendship he had shown her during the construction.”

GYj5N TIL Kurt Knispel (served Nazi Germany during WW2), the highest scoring tank ace of WW2 with 168 confirmed tank kills was never awarded the coveted Knight's Cross because he assaulted higher officers for mistreating POWs and let others take credit for his kills among other things.
Jx8 TIL while running for Sheriff in 1970, Hunter S. Thompson shaved his head so that he could call the conservative, crew-cut wearing incumbent his “long haired opponent.”
9wkwr TIL That the regional delivery service Lasership is so widely criticized that in 2022 it had more complaints to the Better Business Bureau than UPS, despite the latter serving the entire country.
Rej7 TIL that the person who designed Star Wars’ Darth Maul was instructed to make Maul “a vision from your worst nightmare”, and based the design on an actual nightmare he had. When he presented the design to George Lucas, Lucas shuddered and told him “Give me your second worst nightmare.”
1aXD TIL in 2005 Snapple tried to make the world’s largest popsicle but instead the 17.5 tons of ice melted prematurely and “[flooded] Union Square in downtown Manhattan with kiwi-strawberry-flavored fluid”