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TIL that employees at Valve have no managers.

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Ooj9e TIL Hitler commissioned special "Wound Badges of 20 July 1944" to those who were wounded in the failed assassination attempt with him as per the Resistance's Operation Valkyrie. Only 24 people were awarded such medals.
eJr5 TIL that in 1915, a man named Charles Hatfield convinced the town of San Diego that he could create rainfall using a secret mix of chemicals. The city offered to pay him $10,000 if he could end their drought, and the result!, a few days later, was the town’s worst flood of the 20th century.
wLd4Y TIL all "warranty void if removed" stickers are illegal in the US since 1975
M74D7 TIL: The attack on the Philippines Dec. 8 was larger in scale than Pearl Harbor but nobody remembers it. In the Philippines, then a U.S. territory, the attackers laid waste to the largest concentration of US warplanes outside North America—the foundation of the Allies’ Pacific air defense.
5VQgr TIL that the gemstone jet, where the phrase 'jet black' comes from, is actually a form of coal.