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TIL Malden Mills, Inventor of the Popular Polartec fleece fabric, burned down in a fire in 1995. Instead of taking the opportunity to save money and move operations, the owner kept paying all workers while they rebuilt. it cost the owner over $25 million.

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PZBV TIL 44% of the people who didn’t evacuate for Hurricane Katrina stayed because they didn’t want to abandon their pets, this prompted major changes to state and federal laws regarding the evacuation of pets during disasters.
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4XZjo TIL the US Metric Association publishes a bi-monthly newsletter giving updates on converting the US to the metric system. It's been published since 1966.