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TIL of the Gansu ultramarathon disaster, a 62-mile race in which 21 runners lost their lives

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PJZO TIL Shell sold “No Pest Strips” that were highly carcinogenic, even causing one death. They eventually pulled it off the U.S. market and sold it in Mexico so they could still make money. Shell executive: “Speaking as a human being, sure you feel bad. But I’m not being paid to be a human being.”
P10Xn Til that a Captain Charles Boycott was ostracized by his community so hard his last name became synonymous with this form of protest.
Zg6R TIL: “Colleges and universities have become cheerleaders and enablers of the unpaid internship boom, failing to inform young people of their rights or protect them from the miserly calculus of employers.”
0dPry TIL that the 2009–2011 Toyota recalls affected 9 million vehicles, and investigations revealed that unintended acceleration was mostly due to mechanical issues or driver error, not electronic defects
eMLn TIL the “IKEA bias"makes you place a disproportionately high value on stuff you partially assemble yourself, regardless of the quality of the end result.