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TIL 80% of Elevator “Close Door” buttons are non-functional
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TIL that Pabst Blue Ribbon’s marketing guy deliberately tricked a generation of hipsters into making PBR their ironic beer of choice.
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TIL in some countries, including the US flying a flag upside indicates a state of emergency or war. This among a few other things is called flag desecration
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TIL that in 1355, a dispute between the bartender and patrons of a tavern over the quality of beer caused a riot that left almost 100 people dead.
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TIL the brand name Rolex doesn't mean anything, but rather is a completely made-up word that the founder thought is easily pronounced in any language.
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TIL that audio experts could not tell the difference between $100 Monster speaker cables and cables made from soldering together old coat hangers