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TIL of the Peter Principle: Employees tend to be promoted based on their performance in their current role, not how fit they are for their next role, so that every employee tends to rise to their level of incompetence

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epWEk TIL the company that makes ‘Baby Ruth’ candy sued Babe Ruth for company infringement when he tried to create his own candy company. They claimed it was named after Grover Cleveland’s daughter, Ruth, who had died 17 years before the candy hit the market. Babe Ruth lost the suit.
R7LDw TIL Frankie Muniz doesn't remember filming Malcolm in the middle due to severe memory loss.
MJym TIL the B-2 spirit strategic bomber can carry 16 B-83 thermonuclear bombs, each one being 75 times as powerful as the hiroshima bomb (at its maximum). That is equivalent of 1200 hiroshima atomic bombs in stealth mode with a range of 11000 kilometres without refuelling !!
QMjX TIL Chico, California enacts a $500 fine on anyone caught detonating nuclear weapons in city limits
eL75 TIL in 2013 a NJ city councilwoman was tricked into believing the Blue Waffle Disease was real and a threat to her city, so she asked the city council what they were going to do about it.