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TIL of Saint Fiacre, the Patron Saint of Proctology and Hemorrhoid Sufferers

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gMYp9 TIL that online privacy has been revoked by the government before the internet using the third party principle in a precedent from 1976
0wnyL TIL in 2008, McDonald's Japan paid 1,000 people to wait in line for the release of the Quarter Pounder in Osaka. People were paid $10 an hour to do this. 15,000 people gathered at the restaurant due to the fake crowd which caused people to accuse the company of trickery.
yQ0MJ TIL: There was a powerful geomagnetic storm that made it possible for people to observe auroras not just on the poles but all over the globe.
b9gEZ TIL cows can have best friends, and are significantly less stressed out when they get to hang out with them
6EMEX TIL that when Lumber Baron William E Boeing created the Boeing Airplane Company in 1917 the company depended on designs from their first aeronautical engineer hire, Chinese MIT grad Wong Tsu. He worked for a year with the company before returning to China. He fled to Taiwan when Mao took over China