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TIL DoorDash illegally sold user information and settled for $375,000

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wD81 TIL Only one NFL player has died on the field: Chuck Hughes in 1971. The game continued with a silent crowd
ygAV TIL David Ogilvy, a founder/forefather of modern advertising, despised outdoor ads: “Man is at his vilest when he erects a billboard. When I retire from Madison Avenue, I am going to start a secret society of masked vigilantes… chopping down posters at the dark of the moon.”
Zky4 TIL that the Titanic was possibly sunk by a “blackberg”, an iceberg that continuously melts and freezes, resulting in a polished mirror finish that reflects the night sky and water around it.
D10Wj TIL that farmers have cows swallow a big magnet, so when cows eat things like loose nails, it doesn’t travel through their digestive tract and rip it open.
x6Vn1 TIL about project plowshare, a US program to find peaceful uses for nuclear weapons including excavating dig sites using nuclear weapons