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TIL Apple Makes New Employees Work on Fake Products Until Apple Can Trust Them

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8ekA4 TIL Fan Tan Alley in Victoria's Chinatown was a popular location for opium factories as until 1908, it was legal to produce opium in Canada. They alley's gambling clubs, cafes and restaurants were most popular in the 1940s since Chinese men had extra cash to spend
6987J TIL that on February 25th 1919, Oregon became the first state in the United States to implement a gas tax of 1 penny per gallon to fund road construction and maintenance.
4WAX TIL: broccoli has nearly twice the vitamin C of oranges by weight
KOPe4 TIL it took 3 grips to restrain Sean Connery from killing the Camera Man on the set of Zardoz (1974) after the Camera man accidentally opened the camera and exposed a days worth of film. That day's filming involved Connery in heavy makeup, which he hated, so he was furious to have to film it again
graKL TIL that 19 species of fern were named after Lady Gaga because they bear a distinct DNA sequence spelling GAGA and for "her [Lady Gaga's] fervent defense of equality and individual expression"