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TIL that from 1810 to 1812, Jonathan Lambert lived on the South Atlantic island of Tristan da Cunha with two other men and no women, declaring it his micronation

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X0XBP TIL about boredom room, an employee exit management strategy whereby employees are transferred to another department where they are assigned meaningless work until they become disheartened and resign. This strategy is commonly used in countries that have strong labor laws, such as France and Japan.
KOK8R TIL Royal Bank of Canada used machine learning to weigh the effect of a social media storm over Chipotle’s queso (cheese dip) debut. Shares of Chipotle fell by roughly 15 percent after the company released Q3/2017 earnings that missed analyst estimates
LQllm TIL Andrew Johnson was one of 12 US Presidents to not graduate from college, and the only one to have "no formal schooling of any kind," and Abraham Lincoln, another of the 12, "had only about a year of formal schooling of any kind."
gpy8 TIL of Operation Paul Bunyan which included 60 US troops, 64 South Korean Special Forces troops, 7 attack heli’s, an array of attack jets, nuclear ready B-52 bombers, and 12,00 troops on stand-by to finish cutting down a tree after North Korean soldiers killed 2 US soldiers cutting a tree.
W7EX8 TIL in Japan you can rent a Super Mario go kart and drive through the streets of Tokyo, whilst dressed as Super Mario characters.