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TIL Converse shoes have “fuzzy soles” so they can be imported as slippers which dramatically reduces import taxes.

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vPGdx TIL that in the 1600s, Venetians fighting to lifting the siege of Candia considered infecting Ottoman soldiers with plague by attacking them with a liquid made from the spleens and buboes of plague victims. It was never carried out.
6EVpX TIL that on 9/11 a Starbucks nearby ground zero charged rescue workers $130 for 3 cases of water. The company knew about it for weeks and eventually mailed a $130 check to the ambulance company, but only after a journalist ran a piece on 25 September 2001
jLgM TIL that, on a pay-per-text plan, phone companies markup text messages by as much as 6,500% over their cost
7v5Z TIL that two New Jersey day care employees were sentenced to prison in 2015 for running a toddler fight club
RbLa TIL The Beatles song “Come Together” was written for Timothy Leary’s campaign for governor of California. His campaign ended after he was arrested for marijuana possession.