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TIL in 2016 Graeme Wallace, a packing manager at BrewDog, added "Mother F***r Day" to the expiration date of 200,000 beer cans after his bosses told him to "be more punk". The brewery had to pay for the recall of all unsold ones, but Wallace became Employee of the Month.

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