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TIL Trip Adler CEO of Scribd earned the company’s first $17 in revenue by playing the saxophone outside Scribd’s office at Christmas time.

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b9aM4 TIL that Marjorie Post heiress to the Post Cereal Company purchased the patents from Clarence Birdseye and created Birds Eye Frozen Foods. Post also developed a means to deliver the frozen foods Nationally via Train and also invented the see through freezers at Grocery Stores for visibility.
D1nOD TIL a Spanish archives director who only showed up to work to sign-in & sign-out for 10 years. During the time that he was "working," he ran a male brothel and was an erotic comic book artist who created a busty superheroine named Fallarela "who hurls flaming Valencia oranges at her enemies"
N7lKJ TIL In France, you can’t keep home the ashes of your beloved ones. If you try to keep the ashes or scatter them anywhere except in designated areas, you are liable to a €15,000 fine.
yGAw TIL: American POWS Were Killed in Hiroshima At least twenty-three US servicemen were in Hiroshima when the bomb fell. They were prisoners of war, former aviators, held at several locations in downtown Hiroshima.
QWD6 TIL: Steve Jobs felt guilty about getting a liver transplant because he was rich so he helped author a law in California requiring the DMV to ask you to be a donor to increase the number of potential organ donors.