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TIL the “bus stop” sign is painted by hand without using a lettered stencil. Yet the uniformity!

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b6Lb9 TIL Boeing's 737 MAX software was outsourced to $9-an-hour Indian engineers
8aQ9b TIL due to a typo, the Japanese company Mizuho Securities tried to sell 610,000 shares for a yen each (less than a penny) instead of 1 share for 610,000 yen (around $5,000). Despite three separate attempts to cancel it, the Tokyo Stock Exchange processed it anyway, costing the company $225 million.
dDAEB TIL that at its peak, GEOS (Commodore 64 productivity software resembling Windows/Office and MacOS) was the third-most-popular microcomputer operating system in the world in terms of units shipped, trailing only MS-DOS and Mac OS
VddZ TIL that Corexit, the chemical dispersant used to “clean” the bp oil spill, is known to have high levels of toxicity in humans, with known links to lung damage, cancer, and other chemical poisoning effects. Corexit is still the go-to chemical for oil spills with no policies banning it in the US.
6EJbZ TIL that the American Academy of Pediatrics advises that one should never spank their children or verbally abuse them, ever.