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TIL in 2005, Sony spent over a million dollars to drop 250,000 bouncy balls off one of the steepest streets in San Francisco, breaking windows and destroying cars in the process.

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yQelw TIL Wells Fargo's employees informed managers, internal ethics hotline, and HR about fraudulent accounts and forgery as early as 2005.
OoDo7 TIL that Joe Perry sold his 1959 Gibson Les Paul during his 1982 divorce. Later he found the guitar was owned by Slash. Perry called Slash and bugged him for years, offering to pay more than the guitar's worth. Years later at Joe's 50th birthday party, Slash finally gave him the guitar as a gift.
b6Ex0 TIL A french waiter claimed to have invented Crêpes Suzette on accident when he was preparing a dish for future King Edward VII. The story goes that the cordials on a dish of crepes had accidentally caught on fire, but after a taste test he decided the taste had been improved and served it anyways.
QJgdd TIL that the Shakopee Mdewakanton are believed to be the richest tribe in American history as measured by individual personal wealth: Each adult, according to court records and confirmed by one tribal member, receives a monthly payment of around $84,000, or $1.08 million a year.
jbgE TIL: Vasili Arkhipov, a senior officer on a Soviet submarine, refused to launch a nuclear torpedo in October 1962 perhaps preventing WWIII