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TIL Union General Ambrose Burnside was known for his unique beard, combining side whiskers with an unshaven chin. Thanks to him, we have the term "Sideburns"

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a87KL TIL Korn performed the theme song for the 2002 Twilight Zone series
oRYb7 TIL that the US government wasted $247 billion dollars in 2022 alone ($2.4 trillion in the past 20 years) simply due to payment errors.
Vg1Z TIL I learned that a young twenty-something year old CEO took over a $9M company, fired 2/3rd of all managers and gave the power to the employees. Now it has a turnover of over $200m.
vJZD TIL the founders of Bebo sold it to AOL for $850 million and bought it back for $1 million years later.
yNxM TIL Maynard James Keenan from Tool once “spent most of the show baa-ing like a sheep at the audience” when the band learned at the last minute that the venue belonged to L. Ron Hubbard’s Church of Scientology.