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TIL about Peter's Principle OR why everyone sucks at their job. People who excel at work are promoted, to a point where they are incompetent. With every promotion, you are closer to newer and more complex job needs. This incrementally makes you worse at your job to the point of incompetency.

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XEOJR TIL Norm Macdonald was fired from Saturday Night Live because an NBC executive ordered him to lay off jokes targeting his buddy, O.J. Simpson & instead Macdonald did many more. When Simpson was acquitted, Macdonald opened with: “Well, it’s official: Murder is now legal in the state of California."
VBEd4 TIL That the song "Winchester Cathedral" by The New Vaudeville Band topped the Billboard Charts twice in 1966, knocking out The Surpremes' "You Keep Me Hanging On" and The Beach Boys' "Good Vibrations" for the #1 spot
Oog1a TIL between 2004-2009, the Clean Water Act was violated more than 506,000 times, by more than 23,000 companies and other facilities. 40% of the nation’s community water systems violated the act at least once.
BoaL TIL Nasir ad-Din Tusi, a Persian polymath, developed a theory of evolution by natural selection 600 years before Darwin. He wrote that hereditary variability is the leading force of evolution, and that organisms which can change faster are ‘more variable’, thus giving them an advantage over others
R75pw TIL that the eleven points of the maple leaf of the Canadian flag has no special significance: the number and arrangement of the points were chosen after wind tunnel tests and the chosen pattern is the least blurred under high winds.