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TIL more than one in four (28%) of all mobile app uninstalls stem from "too many ads and notifications."

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dyOQ Today I learned that if a Disney cruise ship needs to be evacuated, the first people to get a lifeboat are two Disney employees dressed as Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck. This is to ensure children that the two characters did not go down with the ship.
bOpp TIL Oral Roberts claimed he had a vision of a giant Jesus telling him to build a hospital. When the hospital was losing $10 million/year, Roberts claimed he had another vision from giant Jesus threatened to kill him if he didn’t raise $8 million. The hospital went bankrupt being $25 million in debt.
VMww0 TIL that many countries used "Immurement" as a form of punishment, where the victim was locked in a box and left to starve to death. The latest usage was in 1914, where a Mongolian woman left in a wooden crate died of dehydration.
wLlyo TIL That actor Russell Crowe fronted a rock band. 30 Odd Foot of Grunts originated in the 1980s, releasing one EP and three full lengths by 2003.
lnrA TIL - In 1797 George Washington opened a whiskey distillery three miles from his Virginia estate, and in 1799 it produced 11,000 gallons of whiskey and made Washington the largest American whiskey producer in the 18th century.