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TIL Optometrists Must Provide You a Copy of Your Prescription After an Eye Exam. It is Referred to as the Eye Glass Rule.

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Z8wW4 TIL when The South's Gonna Do It Again by Charlie Daniels Band, a song about Southern rock, was used by the KKK, Daniels said "I'm damn proud of the South, but I sure as hell am not proud of the Ku Klux Klan. [..] It was not written to promote hate groups."
OGlMY TIL proto-punk pioneer James Williamson of The Stooges left the music biz to design chips at AMD, and went on to be a Vice President of technical standards at Sony.
EQk7 TIL that Lawrence Summers used to be the President of Harvard, but was forced to resign following comments he made suggesting that discrimination might not be the main reason men outnumber women in tenured STEM positions at top universities.
m75Y TIL nothing comes after “Thrice”. Once, Twice, and Thrice are the only words of their type.
VMgZD TIL Steve Jobs insisted on buying iOS engineer Steve Forstall lunch with his employee badge. When Forstall protested, Jobs replied 'No, no, no. This is great. I only get paid $1 a year. I don't know who's paying every time I badge.'