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TIL that a CEO during the 2008 recession instead of laying off some employees, furloughed all them for a few weeks: “it’s better for us all to suffer a little than for some to suffer a lot.”

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yQLBl TIL a Butt is a unit of measurement, 130 - 151 US Gallons
x6aYk TIL Salvador Dali once scammed Yoko Ono into paying him $10,000 for a single blade of dry grass. Yoko had offered to pay him that sum for just one of his mustache hairs. He substituted the piece of grass for the single hair because he believed Yoko Ono was a witch and might use it to cast a spell.
Wkjw4 TIL that in the most well-known ranking of the world's top airlines, airlines from Indonesia (Garuda Indonesia), Russia (Aeroflot), the Philippines (Philippine Airlines), and multiple low-cost airlines (AirAsia, easyJet), are ranked ahead of the highest-ranked American airline
KY6g9 TIL that unlike most animals, goats have excellent object permanence and are able to remember where objects are hidden without being able to see or smell them.
Mewp7 TIL there was a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle rock band that toured as a stage show with an album of original songs and performers in animatronic heads, brought to you by Pizza Hut. The "band" appeared on the Oprah Winfrey show along with April O'neill to promote the 'Coming Out of Their Shells' tour