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TIL a group of ferrets is called a 'business'.

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jmVN TIL Antarctic explorers would lure penguins to their ship to be eaten by playing musical instruments. When a bagpipe was played, the penguins fled in terror.
4XwRa TIL that a stolen 9.5 million dollar Stradivarius Cello was nearly turned into a fancy CD rack
v1XOB TIL in 1995 a shirt that featured Margaret from Dennis the Menace saying “Someday a woman will be PRESIDENT!” was pulled from shelves when one Walmart shopper said it offended “family values.” It was restocked 4 months later due to women’s groups threatening to boycott Walmart.
VvW0 TIL that some bars will paint quarters red and give them to employees so they can put the coins in the jukebox. Since patrons only put money into a jukebox if there is already music playing.
Pdme TIL: When adjusting for inflation, John D Rockefeller is the richest man in history with a net worth of 10 times that of Bill Gates.