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TIL Verizon’s Customer Agreement says (bluntly put) that their Sales Reps can lie to you and Verizon doesn’t have to honor what their Reps say.

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gMKJ8 TIL about the Disgrace of Gijón, a Football (Soccer) match between West Germany and Austria so bad, the German TV Commentator refused to comment the game at one point, the Austrian TV commentator asked people to change the channel, and Spain's newspaper printed the match in their Crimes Section.
69RwQ TIL Liberace once sued the Daily Mirror for an article saying he was gay, and won the biggest libel settlement at that time.
GYP8J TIL Casey Kasem declined to reprise his role as Shaggy in "Scooby Doo on Zombie Island" because he had recently gone vegan and wanted that reflected in the character, which was not upheld. This resulted in Billy West's one and only credit for portraying Shaggy.
xk15 TIL “disc” and “disk” are two distinct terms with different meanings (discs are optical media, disks are magnetic media)
GG8N TIL It has been well argued that the sky is red and orange in Edvard Munch’s famous painting The Scream, because the eruption of the volcano Krakatoa in 1883, was so massive, that it disrupted the earth’s atmosphere. This caused the sky to turn blood red at sunset.