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TIL slot machines have pictures of various fruits because they used to dispense various flavors of gum instead of coins.

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5YkmQ TIL Telfar Clemens, the owner of the Telfar clothing brand, redesigned the uniforms for the White Castle fast food chain and dedicated the earnings to bailing out youths from Ryker's Island prison.
kJVee TIL About USS The Sullivans - The first ship in the Navy named after more than one person. It was named after 5 brothers who were killed when their ship was torpedoed in WWII, an event that led to the policy portrayed in Saving Private Ryan. USS The Sullivans itself sunk in 2022 as a museum ship.
D1aKP TIL that in 1984, an 18 year old patient named Libby Zion died in a hospital as a result of the resident and intern physicians being too overworked and exhausted to do their jobs properly. This led to the Libby Zion law, which limits resident physicians to an 80 hour work week.
kOPg5 TIL Michael O'Leary, CEO of Ryanair airlines, has his own taxicab company with just one cab so he can legally use the bus lanes to avoid traffic jams
LQxKm TIL that Mychal Thompson suggested drafting Michael Jordan over Bowie in 1984 NBA draft so that MJ and Drexler could team up in Trail Blazers. Mychal told the organization that if you pick Jordan, and he and Clyde play together, they're going to dominate this league for the next 10 or 15 years.