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[TIL]After a New York lawyer insulted restaurant staff for speaking Spanish in public, people wrote over +2000 1 Star reviews for his office.

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XA0X TIL in 2012 Donald Trump ordered a boycott against Glenfiddich scotch, since the whiskey company financially backs the Top Scot award, given that year to Michael Forbes, who was chosen for refusing to vacate his land to make way for Trump’s planned golf course.
PYo5G TIL that Ada Lovelace - a woman born in 1815 was the first to recognize that computers are more than just adding machines. She was co-responsible for the creation of the 'Analytical Engine' and is widely recognized as the world’s first Computer Programmer.
poRO TIL newborns start at the age of 1 in China and other east-asian cultures. And at the beginning of Lichen(event during February) one year is added to the person’s age. So people may be one or two years older in the ‘Asian reckoning’ traditional system than in the Western system.
9a1B TIL CNN once had two reporters talk to each other via satellite while they were standing in the same parking lot
5YxmQ TIL about Manganese Nodules. Found at the bottom of the ocean these rock concentrations contain all the components needed for electric car batteries. Its estimated to there are enough nodules to create over 200 million batteries in one patch alone. Their worth is estimated up to 16 trillion dollars.