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TIL that Hack the System blogger Maneesh Sethi hired women from Craigslist to yell and slap him for procrastinating or getting off task from his work. His work productivity went up and he improved at his job.

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9WeD TIL that the FBI assigned a team to Sacha Baron Cohen during the filming of Borat due to numerous reports of a “Middle eastern man traveling the Midwest in an ice cream truck.”
loxrG TIL that wolves are vital to the existence of Yellowstone NP ecosystem.
nxLG TIL Tupac danced ballet in high school and ended up portraying the Mouse King in a production of The Nutcracker.
kJ6n1 TIL in 2020, 9 states and 2 U.S. territories had prohibitions on smoking in cars with children. The age threshold varied by jurisdiction ranging from under age 8 in Vermont to under age 18 in California. Penalties also varied by state and territory.
neR9B TIL: In the 1990s, two Boeing 737s (one in 1991 near Colorado Springs, the other in 1994 near Pittsburgh) crashed due to a design flaw that let the rudder move on its own without warning, which killed 157 in total. In 1996, a third aircraft experienced the same issue but landed safely in Richmond.