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Today I learned about a 93 year old man building a cathedral on his own and has been for 40 years.

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7KVM TIL that in 2012, JC Penny implemented a “Fair and Square” policy that did away with sales prices and coupons that fool customers and instead priced everything at what it’s actually worth. Customers hated it, the CEO was fired, and the deceptive pricing was quickly reinstated.
nml7 TIL Barbie can’t hold down a job. Her 126th job was Computer Engineer in 2010. I went to the Mattel site and she is currently a dolphin trainer.
dDE69 TIL after Space Invaders received an officially licensed port to the Atari 2600 in 1980, its availability on the console quadrupled the system's sales.
yVwv TIL that in densely populated urban areas the chance of rain gets higher during the course of the week, up to 22% more.
VMrE8 TIL, the Monterey Cyprus only grows in two small regions near Carmel and Monterey CA. At one point it was a part of a larger forest that extended to the continental shelf.