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TIL In 1999, an unemployed woman living with her sister ended up taking a job giving massages to workers of a small tech startup named “Google”. She was only paid $450 a week, but given stock options. Within 5 years she was worth millions, and the price of her stock has only continued to increase.

6Ewgl TIL Best Buy only sells music on vinyl, apparently.
X0ewk TIL South Australia Police used to have a mounted camel unit as there was no other effective way to patrol the vast central deserts. The last mounted camels were retired in 1951.
woNQ8 TIL the Powerpuff Girls was originally called "Whoopass Stew"
kODD1 TIL we can’t see green stars (because of how black-body spectrum works)
W7vbL TIL that the small town of Wallace, ID (pop. 971) is actually the center of the universe