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TIL an arbitrator ruled that a Meta executive-turned-whistleblower is prohibited from promoting her book “Careless People”

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1aGwP TIL there are Penguins that live in rainforests
VkJm TIL that I, V, X, L, C, D, M aren’t the only letters used in roman numerals; “S” is used to represent ½ along with dots for other fractions
k9lB TIL the phrase “Don’t mess with Texas” has nothing to do with Texan toughness, but was invented by the Texas Department of Transportation to fight littering
xVA4b TIL of Peribsen, an early Egyptian pharaoh whose royal name identified him with the god Seth, rather than with Horus as tradition dictated (particularly strange, since the two gods were mortal enemies). Little is known of his reign, but he's conspicuously absent from later king lists.
KYj19 TIL that Victor Gruen who designed the first mall in the US, in later years hated what he created and even disowned it