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TIL that during the shutdown of Quibi, founder Jeffrey Katzenberg told workers to listen to the song “Get Back Up Again” from the movie Trolls as he announced that they would be getting fired.

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ANbja TIL the cylinder at the end of some power cords is called a ferrite bead, which helps block electromagnetic interference from going out or coming into the device; in short, it prevents a device from acting as an unintentional radiator or antenna.
nWWOP TIL that Bo Jackson is the only professional athlete in history to be named an All-Star in both baseball and football, and using him in Tecmo Bowl is cheating
wLG4E TIL John Wilkes Booth's (Lincoln's Assassin) plan was a simultaneous coordinated strike to kill the President, Vice President, & Secretary of State, causing succession chaos. Lincoln was killed, the Secretary of State severely injured, but the conspirator assigned to the Vice President chickened out
daxK TIL that lionfish are a prolific invasive species in the Atlantic Ocean and sharks typically don’t recognize them as prey. In an effort to control the lionfish population, a group of conservationists attempted to train reef sharks to prey on them.
WWdL TIL that in 1946 Kodak customers complained about film developing cloudy. Kodak investigated & found the corn husks used for packing was radioactive. They discovered something that was not public knowledge; the packaging was exposed to fallout from the world’s first nuclear bomb explosion.