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TIL that employees at Valve have no managers.

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VMMQ8 TIL of Sarah Jones, a camera assistant who was struck and killed by a train while working on the film Midnight Rider. Director Randal Miller was charged with criminal trespass and involuntary manslaughter and became the first director to go to jail as a result of a death on set.
E6bo TIL Koko, the signing gorilla, asked for a pet cat and named the tail-less kitteh All Ball, signed “obnoxious cat” when it bit her, and grieved when it died
D1Gle TIL of Robert Maxwell, media mogul, British MP, fraudster, and suspected spy. After his naked body was found in the ocean, it was revealed that he had stolen hundreds of millions of pounds from his companies’ pension funds. He is also the father of Ghislaine Maxwell.
4XEd5 TIL Judge Judy is not a judge on her show, but an arbitrator in a binding arbitration. The seemingly official looking outfits and sets are really just for show.
5VNrQ TIL that James Garfield once found a new, original proof of the Pythagorean theorm