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TIL that doing your job exactly by the rules laid out is a way labor can do a strike while not actually striking.

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jNgrj TIL, South Dakota had a large advertising campaign: “Meth — we’re on it”
LQDWr TIL George Michael wrote, produced, performed and painstakingly played every single instrument on Last Christmas
VMJd4 TIL of the Man in the Iron Mask. An unidentified prisoner held for 34 years, until his death in 1703, who was forced to wear a mask to ensure no one knew his true identity. His cell had multiple doors so no one could listen; if he spoke of anything other than his immediate needs he would be killed.
4XEX TIL that Abraham Lincoln was the only sitting U.S. President to be on a active battlefield. Lincoln had to take cover when Confederate soldiers saw him.