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TIL: the CEO of Charles Schwab often conducts interviews over breakfast, asking the cook ahead of time to slightly mess up the candidate's order. He judges their reaction as a test of their character.

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e09p4 TIL about Cymothoa exigua, a parasitic isopod that can cut off a fish's tongue and replace the tongue with itself.
pYMYN TIL in 2016 a man inadvertently recreated a "Seinfeld" plot: Attempting to return 10,000 aluminum cans in Michigan (10c return rate per) from Kentucky (5c return rate). He was later arrested for one count of beverage return of nonrefundable bottles.
rRjeW TIL the song "My way" is banned in many Filipino bars after the "My Way killings"
wYr7 TIL-There are enough restaurants in New York City to eat out every night for 54 years and never visit the same place twice.
M71e8 TIL: In 2008, Japan sent sakura(cherry blossom) seeds to the ISS and it spent 8 months onboard. After reaching the planet Earth, they planted those seeds from where they were collected and surprisingly, the tree bloomed in just 4 years instead of 10 and the flowers bloomed with 6 petals instead of 5