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TIL in Colorado you cannot be fired for any lawful activities you conduct on your own time, outside of work hours.

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16pvV TIL that the phrase “time immemorial” (as used in English common law) refers to any time prior to July 6, 1189
78nN7 TIL during the last year of his life Jim Morrison would drink 3 bottles of whiskey per day
QJ0Zd TIL that Mitch Mitchell was chosen over Ansley Dunbar to be the drummer for the Jimi Hendrix Experience by a coin toss. He would later not be chosen as the drummer for Paul McCartney and Wings when he lost a coin toss.
8e9N8 TIL after a Taliban fighter shot down an American CH-47D Chinook, he boasted about it over his radio. Signals Intelligence identified the caller, and within two days, an F-16, a C-130, and two Apache Gunships used their combined firepower to kill him and five others.
EvdW TIL the USSR had a televised song contest. Since few people had phones, viewers would turn their house lights ON if they liked a certain song (OFF if they didn’t). The state energy co. recorded the size of each power spike & reported the results to the station to determine points for each contestant