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TIL 99-cent pricing was invented as a way to keep clerks honest. Instead of pocketing a bill, they had to open the cash register to get a penny, and the register would record the sale. It’s not just to trick customers

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GArMj TIL the Archies classic "Sugar, Sugar" was one of the songs that astronaut Alan Bean requested be part of the musical selections on the Apollo 12 mission.
9YWym TIL that the dreams of still being in school, failing a test and similar school related dreams are among the top 10 for people of any age worldwide.
0ExR TIL in his will George Bernard Shaw provided for a competition to invent an alphabet better suited to the English language than the Roman alphabet. The resulting alphabet is called the Shavian alphabet and is supported by Unicode.
v1po4 TIL the cofounder of the New York Times manned a Gatling Gun to defend the paper’s headquarters during the 1863 New York draft riots
Aw47 TIL Stanley Kubrick, when told that Schindler’s List was a good representation of the Holocaust, replied “Think that’s about the Holocaust? That was about success, wasn’t it? The Holocaust is about 6 million people who get killed. Schindler’s List is about 600 who don’t.”