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TIL that Ben & Jerry Employees receive 3 free pints of ice cream per day. They also get a free gym membership.

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9Ygj7 TIL There is no left brain and right brain divide. People are not divided on the left-brain and the right-brain thinkers: those who are logical and analytical vs. those who are intuitive and creative. Scientific research has shown that the popular left brain / right brain story doesn't hold water.
5YNR9 TIL there's a scale to rate how understandable written communication is, called the Flesch readability score. Corporate jargon ranks low on this scale.
nW4PG TIL about John Williams, the oldest MMA fighter, who participated in and won 1 fight at 70 years old. He also achieved over 100 weightlifting records, a world record for breaking 10 blocks of ice with a single punch, and could perform 13 consecutive hours of judo throws.
yGXJ TIL that in a 2000 lawsuit between Pizza Hut and Papa John’s, a federal court ruled that “better ingredients” do not, in fact, make “better pizza”.
mxeVY TIL that owning a property doesn’t always guarantee that you own everything beneath the surface of that property such as oil, coal, or dinosaur bones. “Mineral Rights” can have a separate deed than “Surface Rights.”