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TIL that RadioShack has been purchased by a series of organizations that then went nearly or fully bankrupt, including Tai Lopez’ holding company

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X0XBP TIL about boredom room, an employee exit management strategy whereby employees are transferred to another department where they are assigned meaningless work until they become disheartened and resign. This strategy is commonly used in countries that have strong labor laws, such as France and Japan.
epVXg TIL tagging content on social media (I.e. hashtags) falls into a classification system called Folksonomy.
X0wrj TIL that the Doomsday clock was set to 90 seconds to midnight in 2023 and remains that way today. This is closer than any time during the cold war.
6E6Z8 TIL honey bees aren't native to North America. When they arrived from Europe they spread out faster than the colonists, and Native Americans considered the appearance of the "white man's fly" to indicate the approach of European settlers
5lOB TIL real-life vigilante crime fighters exist in Seattle under the name “Rain City Superhero Movement”