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TIL “Mushroom management” is where employees aren’t told about the ideas or general state of the company, and are given work without knowing its purpose. So called because they are “kept in the dark and fed bullshit”

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G7QQ TIL Thomas Jefferson invented the swivel chair and sat on the first one while writing much of the Declaration of Independence
gMXjL TIL that sci-fi author Phillip K. Dick was once so poor he ate dog food to survive. He would go on to have an outstanding career and write a novel that formed the basis for the movie Blade Runner.
ADj0l TIL of Elouise Cobell (“Yellow Bird Woman”) who founded the first Native American owned bank. As treasurer of the Blackfeet Nation she tried to resolve accounting discrepancies regarding leases on Indian Land which led to a $3.4 Billion dollar class action settlement against the US government.
yG58 TIL an Auburn University graduate, James Brooks, was discovered to be illiterate after he couldn’t read court documents regarding him not paying child support.
0w97L TIL of the "Hydraulic Empire" theory. It states that civilizations developing in areas with low abundance of water are fated to develop regulating systems and ultimately despotism, and that Europe developed republicanism due to a large excess of it.