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TIL that Catcher in the Rye isn't available in an ebook form because J.D. Salinger refused to allow adaptations to the book and even after his death, his agents continue to uphold his wishes.

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epllJ TIL there were ticket scalpers for gladiator fights in Ancient Rome. Gladiators like Hermes were known to draw the largest crowds and brought in high profits for scalpers due to demand
4rPN TIL when Google was losing a lot of female employees because they weren’t coming back to work after giving birth, Google lengthened maternity leave to 5 months from 3, and changed it from partial pay to full pay, and the amount of women who didn’t come back after maternity leave dropped by 50%.
R7lr9 TIL that Killian, a black labrador, saved a baby boy from an abusive babysitter by staying between the baby and the sitter and alerting the parents. Parents tried recording the scene, and the sitter was convicted.
gdgL TIL that in 1985, 2 men broke into Fran Drescher’s home and one of them raped Fran and her friend and gunpoint while Fran’s husband was tied up and forced to watch the ordeal.
8eNA4 TIL David Suzuki was beaten as a child at a Japanese concentration camp in Canada by both ethnic Japanese and white children