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TIL that Acacia trees warn each other of danger

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ZZjD TIL that the book keeper at the 1st franchised Mcdonald’s worked for free for the first 9 months and little pay after that, and was given 10% of the company. 10 years later she cashed in part of her holdings for $300,000 (worth 1.7 mil today) and kept the rest worth 5 mil (28 mil today).
6J97 TIL that the call sign “Air Force One” was created in 1954 to avoid confusion, after an incident where a commercial flight and President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s plane carried the same number in the same airspace.
bxlp TIL two high school students rode their horses to school on ‘no vehicles to school day’, and were suspended
jEpn TIL that a man rediscovered a technique to shoot 3 arrows in 1.5 seconds (or 10 arrows in 4.9 seconds), one of many ancient and medieval archery techniques that were lost and were thought impossible by modern archery
YkeA TIL there is a culture deemed unstudiable by some anthropologists for leading such uninteresting and mundane lives, focused upon work, frowning upon sex and play and without spiritual or political leaders.