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TIL Dominos Pizza awards all store managers who achieve $25,000 in sales a week for four consecutive weeks with a customized Rolex watch, in a contest called "The Rolex Challenge".

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e0No4 TIL that Isoroku Yamamoto, Admiral of the Japanese navy in WWII, who had first been assigned to sea, (following his opposition to the Tripartite pact with Germany and Italy), for fear that if he stayed on land he would be assassinated within a year
er9b TIL that there is a hidden pattern called the EURion Constellation that is incorporated into over 52 countries’ banknotes, including the US. Printers will refuse to print banknotes if the pattern is detected, and PhotoShop will prevent editing if the pattern is detected.
PgvV TIL in 1953, a US Scientist named Frank Olsen was administered LSD without his knowledge as part of the MKULTRA program. A week later, Olsen ended up dead. The CIA claimed Olsen jumped from a hotel window, but later paid the family $750K and a 2nd autopsy revealed he was likely assassinated.
ybke TIL if you had a baseball-sized piece of neutron star material it would weigh 20 trillion kg, about 40 times the estimated weight of the entire human population
5YRNR TIL the first street fight ever filmed was between 2 men as they was leaving work in Halifax,England - 1901