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TIL billionaire Mark Cuban once said he wouldn’t hire the head of NBA officiating “to manage a Dairy Queen.” Dairy Queen offered to let Cuban manage one of their stores, which he did for one day.

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g9eL TIL that in 1998 a US military jet cut the cables of a cable car in Italy killing 20 people. No one was convicted. [Possibly NSFW]
9YrlD TIL that the great age of Caribbean piracy began in 1522 when French corsair Jean Fleury captured two Spanish ships on their way back to Spain from the new world, plundering more than $30 million worth of Aztec gold.
XJwE TIL of the existence of the short-lived Florida-based nation State of Muskogee, which was founded in 1799 in an attempt to resist the expansion of the United States with the assistance of southeastern native tribes
X0kjj TIL there was once a Danish chef who spent ten years undercover arranging a fake arms deal with North Korea - and filmed it all
oBlwW TIL the nokia 3210 was the first phone to sell 100 million units. It spotted the first mass market internal antenna, there games, and had a standby time of up to 11 days