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TIL in Asia, collecting luxury goods is considered a solid investment. Some luxury handbags increase 14.2% in value every year, a significantly higher return than the stock market.

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M7GpA TIL Disney cofounder Roy Disney spent time with his grandchildren every week at Disneyland. Roy greeted each employee by name and picked up garbage he saw on the ground to teach them "Nobody is too good to pick up trash”
78omX TIL that there was a spinoff of Final Fantasy XIl in the works by a Swedish game developer (Grin), but Square Enix disapproved of the game developer's Nordic art style. SE refused to bankroll the idea and Grin filed for bankruptcy.
P1A6E TIL about the Braunschweig meteorite, a 1.3kg meteorite that hit a concrete path in Germany, leaving a 3cm deep/7cm wide crater, presumably the smallest impact crater we know of.
Ng5Q TIL, the youngest soldier to be killed in action in the Vietnam War, Dan Bullock was 15 years old
rR4bo TIL of the “Great Sparrow Campaign” (打麻雀运动), during which Mao Zedong ordered the Chinese people to kill all sparrows, because they were eating farmers’ seeds. With the sparrows dead, the insect population exploded, and locusts devastated the rice fields.