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TIL Willie Nelson collaborated with Snoop Dogg on a country track

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1p0d TIL Billy Mays was signed on to star in a chain of Taco Bell commercials before his death.
8a1aP TIL about Parkinson’s Law, which states that work expands to fill the time allotted. At the time used to explain the growth of bureaucracy in organizations, it helps understand today why so many projects and team fail to be productive.
Zg6R TIL: “Colleges and universities have become cheerleaders and enablers of the unpaid internship boom, failing to inform young people of their rights or protect them from the miserly calculus of employers.”
MMYb TIL during the Korean War when the US Marines required extra mortar ammunition they would radio for “Tootsie Rolls”; however a rookie radio operator requested an air drop of actual Tootsie Rolls which ended up saving the company from near starvation.
GAVaN TIL that Brockton Massachusetts is called The City Of Champions, because both undefeated heavyweight Rocky Marciano and Marvin Hagler are Brockton natives.