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TIL HP stock rose 10.5% when then CEO Carly Fiorina was forced out

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ZlPR TIL a British man spent three days pushing a Brussels sprout with his nose to the summit of one of the UK’s tallest mountains: “People definitely think I’m mad, and I’m beginning to think it myself.”
VMo4Q TIL that as the Roman Emperor Vespasian was dying with severe diarrhea, he remarked "Dear me, I think I'm becoming a god" before succumbing to his illness.
Pwwg TIL that during the Chelsea-Charlton match of 1937 on boxing day, there was thick fog and the match had to be stopped. The Charlton keeper stayed on the pitch for 15 more minutes without knowing, until a policeman found and informed him.
JYV91 TIL that Seattle's Sound Transit renamed its proposed "Red Line" rail because the name evoked "redlining," the historic practice of denying mortgage loans to poor, mostly minority, neighborhoods, which further impoverished them.
vWm8 TIL the rotary phone was invented by an undertaker. The operator in his hometown was married to his competition, so the rotary dial was a way to bypass the human operator.