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TIL Marc Rebillet sold his his spot in line to buy an iPhone for $800 back to a lady who wanted to buy all the iPhone in the store. This was in the 2000's.

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Ay8n TIL it is “required” by the FDIC for financial institution employees to take two weeks consecutive vacation every year to help uncover cases of fraud. The logic being that someone else must do your work for 2 weeks and said employee will be unable to cover up their work for that length of time.
6AMQ TIL Henry Lee Lucas was abused as a child. His mother beat him for accepting a teddy bear from his elementary school teacher. He became one of the world’s worst serial killers. His first murder was his own mother.
OoXVa TIL that alcohol is the most dangerous drug to withdrawal from, that hundreds die every year attempting to quit cold-turkey, and that despite this, Alcoholics Anonymous actively discourages people from using any kind of medical intervention.
xVQbB TIL, a Pakistani student was killed by mob at his university, for doing blasphemy on social media. In Pakistan, something as silly as "Nine is not fine" can get you killed, and your killers will be praised as heroes.
vPRMx TIL Virgil McCroskey purchased 4,400 acres of land for tourism in Idaho on the condition he maintain it himself for 15 years; McCroskey accepted the terms, and lived exactly 15 more years, fulfilling his obligation to the state of Idaho just weeks before his death in 1970 at age 93.