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TIL that the law firm Morgan & Morgan fired half of its marketing department in 2021 because they criticized the firm's "Size Matters" campaign as an inappropriate joke.

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y7WJ TIL that 300ft uphill from the highest water level reached by the 2011 Tōhoku tsunami sits a stone marker over a century old that warns, “Do not build your homes below this point!”
1aM1D TIL A rare photo of Amelia Earhart shows her riding a scooter in the 1930s with a published caption reading, “In the near future, we are told, no one will walk at all."
xPnD TIL in 1967 Israel attacked U.S.S. Liberty as an attempt to create a false flag attack and spur a war against Iran, the only reason a war didn’t happen is because a soviet spy plane flew over head and took pictures of the incident.
78JRp TIL that horses don't smile, it's their "Flehmen Response"
Y7xev TIL of Säkkijärven polkka. A Finnish folk-song played repeatedly over radio during the Soviet-Finnish War to block radio-controlled mines