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TIL Bob of Bob’s Red Mill, a company with an annual revenue of $30-$50 million, decided to give ownership of the whole company to his employees.

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4l6b TIL that UN weapons inspector and UK government Bio-weapons expert David Kelly was found dead 2 days after testifying in parliament against Iraqi WMD claims. His autopsy was also meant to be sealed for 70 years by judge order.
N89N TIL after David Bowie released his album Low, Nick Lowe responded by releasing an album named Bowi
mxYOy TIL In the USA if you are delayed by an airline by more than 4 hours for actions within their control (overbooking) you are entitled to 4x the face vale of the ticket capped at $1300.
gMmlD TIL the tallest wave ever recorded reached 524m when it struck land. This is the height of building 1 of the World Trade Center (including the antenna)
Y9kd TIL in 1991 a fake Russian TV program convinced many citizens that Lenin consumed a lot of psychedelic mushrooms, eventually even becoming a mushroom himself. The Leningrad Communist Party responded that “Lenin could not have been a mushroom” because “a mammal can not be a plant”