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xV85w TIL if in 2001 you bought $399 in Apple stock instead of buying the original iPod, today that stock would be worth $65,000
e0Ay5 TIL: The reason we say "o clock" is from the period when mechanical clocks and their sundial predecessors overlapped. To clarify which type of time you were giving you'd say, for example, "10 on the clock" which became "10 o' clock"
rOme TIL that Richard Dreyfuss’s drug problem was so serious in the 70s/80s that he still has no memory of shooting the film Whose Life Is It Anyway.
8ax6b TIL that the day after Thanksgiving is called ‘Brown Friday’ by plumbers as it is the busiest day of the year for them.
m1nMv TIL that Hitler was jeered by an angry crowd in Hof, near Nuremberg in 1941-the only time he was opposed to his face in public during his 12 years of rule.