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TIL because of the low humidity due to high elevation in Denver, the Colorado Rockies baseball team started using a humidor to store baseballs in 2002, after which they found that home runs and other stats became more in line with the rest of the league

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jg1Q TIL in 2011, in response to employees’ complaints about work-life balance and the expectations of answering after-hours email from home, Volkswagen agreed to implement a rule restricting company email functionality on the firm’s BlackBerry smartphones from 6:30pm-7:30am.
GAMJg TIL all humans alive on the planet today are related to, and descended from, a single individual who lived as recently as 3000 years ago, according to the most realistic scientific models to find the "Most Recent Common Ancestor"
wGp6 TIL that chemical technician Karen Silkwood, who after exposing numerous safety and ethics violations by the Kerr-McGee energy company, died in a mysterious car accident on her way to meet with a New York Times journalist.
GYD5N TIL Richard Klinkhamer's wife "disappeared" in 1991. He then wrote a book on seven ways to kill your spouse. In 2000, new owners of his former home found the skeletal remains of his wife, and in 2001 he was sentenced to 7 years in prison. He was released in 2003 for good behavior.
mxpoP TIL One of the founders of Starbucks returned a priceless collection of Chinese coins owned by his grandfather and donated it to the Shanghai Mint Museum in 2010. Its earliest piece is a coin mold dating back to 200 B.C., during the reign of Qin Shihuang