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

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a8jPb TIL Bruno Mars' career started as an Elvis impersonator at the age of three. His uncle was also an Elvis impersonator
LZPd TIL immediately after Pearl Harbor the US treasury issued specialized ‘over print’ bank notes for the Hawaiian market. In the case of an invasion all the seized cash would be rendered worthless.
R58x7 TIL that Button, Cremini, and Portobello Mushrooms are all the same variety of mushroom, Agaricus bisporus, just at different ages.
p8NkZ TIL the original, ancient name for the 2nd largest pyramid in Egypt, the pyramid of Khafre, is "Great is Khafre".
oRdmr TIL about the 1991 Andover tornado. The F4 tornado made a direct hit on McConnell AFB and narrowly missed striking 10 B-1B bombers, 2 of which were armed with nuclear weapons