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TIL Apple makes it’s employee’s work on fake projects until they can be trusted.

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DQLnp TIL Japan attacked Pearl Harbor due to U.S. oil embargoes, hoping to weaken the U.S. Navy and secure their own resources. Final goal was the US to seek peace.
W7pNN TIL-Macchu Pichu is a earthquake-proof city. Incans created a brilliant engineering technique called ‘ashlar masonry’, where rocks are cut to fit perfectly together without mortar. This allowed the stones to move in its place during an earthquake, before settling back in their original positions.
0wGeR TIL in 1917, 1,300 miners went on strike in Bisbee, AZ over unsafe working conditions, low pay, and long hours. The mining company hired 2,000 men and loaded the strikers at gunpoint into cattle cars for a 16 hour trip through the desert without food or water and left them in New Mexico.
9YjMQ TIL That the fastest ever ascent of the world's highest mountain, Mt Everest was in a time of 8 hr 10 min, usually it takes weeks
5Yo5n TIL in early 1984 Chrysler was about to introduce the Newport. However, after the dealers have taken first orders for those cars, Chrysler decided to cancel the new model and sell it as the Dodge Diplomat SE instead.