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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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1Awd TIL on September 19, 1985, when Frank Zappa famously testified before Congress to protest the PMRC’s attempt to legislate and censor heavy metal music lyrics, Zappa compared the proposed legislation to “treating dandruff by decapitation”
aw66M TIL That the Hostages Involved in the Iran Hostage Crisis Were Given Lifetime Passes to MLB Games
DQVov TIL only two people born in 1990 or later have won best acting Oscars, Jennifer Lawrence and Ariana DeBose.
VMXbm TIL that mid-level managers rather than those at the bottom of the corporate hierarchy, suffered the most from depression
XEExD Short answer: Do bears poop in the woods?