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TIL in 2015 three inmates from a maximum security prison beat Harvard’s debate team in a competitive debate.

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VaeB TIL that Quentin Tarantino wants to stop making movies after his 10th film. The Hateful Eight was his 8th film.
PYBvV TIL, John D. Rockefeller was the world's first Billionaire and it was his near-monopoly oil business in the USA that necessitated the federal and states governments to create Antitrust laws.
pZM4 TIL: A Chimpanzee, name Julie, started a fashion trend among the other apes in her group in 2010 by sticking a hair of grass in her ear. The style caught on shortly after the act.
xVLJB TIL that gladiators rarely fought to death. While around 1 in 10 did die during battle, most gladiators made money fighting - not killing other people.
VMmV0 TIL “Mushroom management” is where employees aren’t told about the ideas or general state of the company, and are given work without knowing its purpose. So called because they are “kept in the dark and fed bullshit”