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TIL that during WWII, ‘Rumor Clinics’ were set up to dispel morale-damaging gossip.

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XEDaE TIL that news channels owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group are required to do 'must-run' segments. Which is a centralized system of mandating news stories, reports or segments at all 193 (soon 233) stations that SBG owns
X9j8 TIL that when Kim Peek managed payrolls of 160 people, he was able to complete this task in just hours without a calculator and when he was fired to be replaced by computer, it took two full time accountants plus the computer just to replace him.
N7RDJ TIL the name of 1997 film "Gattaca" is based on the letters G, A, T, and C, which stand for guanine, adenine, thymine, and cytosine, the four nucleobases of DNA.
Z8M54 TIL a railroad in Britain with a bad public image hired a 15 year-old to run it's twitter account, with great results.
p8eap TIL The United States used chemical weapons on the Vietnam War. It is estimated that today up to 1 million people are disabled or have health problems as a result of contamination