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TIL an Italian restaurant owner boosted business by asking for tons of negative reviews to get around Yelp's positive review blocking practices

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wgXJ TIL: In 1930, Babe Ruth signed a contract for a record breaking $80,000. He was asked by a reporter what he thought of his yearly salary being more than President Hoover’s $75,000. His response: “I know, but I had a better year than Hoover.”
VjO4 TIL that Canadian citizens can send mail to various government offices postage free
4r0R TIL that because of South Park’s Scientology episode, The Church of Scientology hired people to spy on Matt and Trey to find something on them to use for blackmail. The Church became frustrated when their investigation turned up nothing but the fact that they’re pretty normal people.
eEX6 TIL Astronaut Ed Mitchell said of his experience on the moon in 1971: “From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, ‘Look at that, you son of a bitch.’”
epPGb TIL There was a Nazi Summer camp in Long Island in the 1930 that introduced Americans to the Nazi ideology, along with swimming and crafts.