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TIL that the non-profit Susan G. Komen for the Cure has sued several other, often small defenseless, nonprofits for using the words “for the cure” or the color pink.

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x6a71 TIL of the 1937 School Explosion in New London, Texas. 294 died, mostly students in Grades 5 thru 11. Although the richest independent school district in the U.S, to save money the school board put a leaky tap on an oil company's production residue gas line, leading to the explosion from a spark.
x6p17 TIL that the 401(k) retirement plan was created as a tax shelter for rich executives. Before its introduction, companies would create deferred savings accounts for executives so to avoid paying taxes, but the government caught on and formalized the rules as the 401k.
9Ylp TIL that Hoba, the largest uncovered meteorite in the world, most likely ‘skipped’ across the earth’s atmosphere like a skipping stone, due to its unusual shape
ZAQ TIL that the song “Why can’t we be Friends?” was played in space when Soviet cosmonauts and U.S. astronauts joined together in 1975 for the Apollo–Soyuz Test Project.
mx4vP TIL on January 22, 1943 in Spearfish, South Dakota, the temperature rose from -4 at 7:32 a.m. to 45 degrees–a rise of 49 degrees—in just two minutes. A couple of hours later, it plunged from 54 back to -4 degrees–a change of 58 degrees in 27 minutes