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TIL 60% of Coachella tickets were bought on Afterpay-style plans, and many BNPL companies have lost lawsuits for operating without a lenders license and called their services “budgeting tools”

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8Jg8 TIL that 900 workers have died in their mission to build the infrastructure for 2022 UEFA World Cup in Qatar. If the deathrate continue to be as high, at least 4000 workers will die before the actual event begins.
7rP1x TIL After Oprah's famous "You get a car" episode, where she gave away 276 cars at a total cost of $7.6 million, many of the recipients sent in complaints to the show as they had all been charged a $6-7k "gift tax".
LkavZ TIL: There are Asian (Thai) who fought in US Civil War, participated and survived in many major battle, and became the first Asian to received US pension.
Ke94 TIL That decades old TV shows and movies can be up-scaled to HD because they were shot in HQ, but the technology at that time wouldn’t allow HD viewing.
Y71wx TIL about a 10 cent beer night for an MLB team that caused fans to be so drunk that they threw firecrackers, openly smoked marijuana, streaked, and eventually rioted the field. The game was forfeited.