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TIL Elon Musk called Apple the ‘Tesla graveyard’, alleging that many of the tech giant’s senior staff are former Tesla employees who couldn’t make it at his company. Stating: “We always jokingly call Apple the 'Tesla Graveyard.’ If you don’t make it at Tesla, you go work at Apple. I’m not kidding.”

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7r6RX TIL that the US uses customary units of measurement that, prior to 1959, were slightly bigger than the imperial system units. The Mendenhall Order established a set conversion rate between the US and metric systems, causing discrepancies with the imperial system over time.
D1npj TIL that when Pokemon Go first came out, it increased U.S. activity levels by 144 billion steps in just 30 days.
N71bE TIL that until 1913, children in the United States could legally be sent by mail
OGorX TIL Union General Philip Kearny devised the first unit insignia patches used in the U.S. Army in 1862, after mistakenly giving orders to soldiers not under his command. Afterward, his men wore a patch of red cloth to identify themselves as members of his unit. Other units quickly adopted the idea.
AVol TIL The U.S. hasn’t been hit by a major hurricane since 2005, the longest ‘hurricane drought’ in recorded history