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TIL that it would take 76 8-hour work days for the average person to read the Terms and Conditions they agree to in a year.

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p8kO8 TIL: That there are "virtual restaurants" or "Ghost kitchens" where one restaurant might make food for two or more other restaurants where the food made is delivery only.
QNKe9 TIL that originally celsius degrees were meant to be reversed with water boiling at zero degrees and freezing at 100
4X8no TIL that in Oklahoma in the 1920s, ranchers, lawyers and public officials conspired together to murder 60+ Osage Indians in order to secure the rights to their oil-rich land. Only two men were ever convicted. Both were paroled and one pardoned by the governor of Oklahoma.
LkRvp TIL in a Dallas speech that was never delivered due to his assassination, JFK noted that "for the first time in history average factory earnings have exceeded $100 a week." In 2020 dollars, that's over $830.
v6x TIL that in 1972 a radio was designed that ‘sneezed’ every 6 months in order to protect the microprocessors from dust