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TIL that a Portland dairy was forced to pay staff over $10 million in back pay because of a missing Oxford comma in the state overtime laws.

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gMB9 TIL on August 25, 1914, in retaliation for Belgium’s guerrilla tactics in defending their country, German troops burned Leuven’s University Library, destroying hundreds of thousands of irreplaceable medieval-period books, manuscripts, and treasures.
RnZ8 TIL a lonely, defomed dolphin was adopted by a family of sperm whales.
oBxpW TIL Elijah Wood spoke of an organized child sex abuse in Hollywood (before the Weinstein and #MeToo incidents)
X0Ll8 Today I learned that a boy named Jerry Parr was inspired to join the US Secret Service after watching the movie "Code of the Secret Service", in which Ronald Reagan plays a Service agent. Parr grew up to join the Service and save Reagan, then the US President, from being assassinated.
0wlj1 TIL clovers used to be part of lawn seed mix and are helpful in many ways to keeping a healthy lawn. About 60-70 years ago they became classified as a weed by savvy marketing teams to sell you products like nitrogen and weed killers, which clovers do naturally by themselves.