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d85Nj TIL Within 10 years of graduation , most people work in careers that aren't directly related to their majors
aKky TIL that a manufacturing defect saved a mobster’s life. A car bomb detonated under Frank “Lefty” Rosenthal’s 1981 Cadillac Eldorado, but GM installed a metal plate under the driver’s seat in that model to correct its balance, protecting him from the explosion. (‘Casino’ (1995) depicts the bombing.)
lD81 TIL That Nixon employed a foreign policy designed to make him appear “irrational and volatile” - literally called “The Madman Theory”
GAlXE TIL an untrue myth says that the president of the Titanic's operating company, J Bruce Ismay, stole a seat on a lifeboat. Actually, the myth came from deceptive newspaper stories. (The newspaper's owner had a vendetta against Ismay) A Nazi film later portrayed Ismay as a Jewish businessman.
LkZbm TIL in the year 1200, all of France was placed under Interdict - a punishment from the Catholic Church banning rites like communion, marriages, communion, etc. - because King Phillip II took a second wife while still legally married to (and imprisoning) Ingeborg of Denmark.