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TIL On Black Friday 2014, Cards Against Humanity was taken off shelves and replaced with a “Bullshit” box, for $6. Inside? “Literal feces, from an actual bull”, they said. The move - a protest against the 'buy anything' culture of Black Friday - led to 30,000 boxes of shit being sold in 2 hours flat

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woEO1 TIL: The AICPA (which is responsible for All CPAs in America), has a program known as the "Federal Key Person" for CPAs who know a Congressperson or a person who knows a Congressperson. They receive information from the AICPA when important matters arise, to privately inform their assigned target.
W7ZyX TIL I learned that in 2007 an initiative called the Great Green Wall was started to restore the vegetation of the Sahel and to stop the expansion of the Sahara. The project is funded by the world bank(most of it). The wall goes across the entire part of Africa from Senegal to Ethiopia
R7lVQ TIL in 1624 Marco Antonio de Dominis was publicly burned at the stake by the Catholic Church for his many “heresies” in both science and philosophy. Among them — being first to use science to accurately describe how rainbows are formed.
BrRmx TIL Despite having little demand for whale products, Soviet whaling fleets illegally (and secretly) killed over 180,000 whales, driving several species to the brink of extinction.
VBOK4 TIL Mercedes Benz, the flagship car brand of the Nazis, was named after a Jewish girl, who's grandfather was a well regarded rabbi and intellectual in the Jewish community in Vienna.