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TIL that when a Google employee dies their spouses receive half pay from the company for 10 years and their children receive 1,000 dollars per month until they’re at least 19

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xVeo5 TIL that The Sex Pistols were asked by their manager to write a song called "Submission", hoping they would write about bondage. Instead they wrote a song about a submarine mission.
YA1Z TIL that pollution in London was once so bad, that some train lines used detonations as signals, because drivers couldn’t see the lights
LkmLd TIL that among the 198 players drafted ahead of Tom Brady in the 2000 NFL draft was a Norwegian shot putter/defensive tackle/boxer.
pY7BN TIL that Kim Jong-il had a plan to breed giant rabbits to feed the poor. He bought 12. When his supplier asked if he wanted help breeding them, an official notified him that Kim had eaten them for his birthday.
gMBLW TIL that there was a war fought over the shooting of a pig, called the Pig War, between the US and Britain.