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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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XEPmk TIL Dalmatians are associated with Fire Fighters because they were originally used as sirens. Dating back to the 1800s, they could keep up with the horse drawn carriages and warn people they are coming as well as scare off anything that would spook the horses.
xVAVb TIL that ‘Come on Eileen’ in “Come on Eileen” by Dexy’s Midnight Runners can be replaced with ‘Covid-19’ - thanks, Coronavirus!
gMZbL TIL Mark Twain was incredibly well traveled and wrote "Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth..."
daBB TIL there is a pro US propoganda news network that broadcasts in multiple languages in many different countries. This news network recieves almost double the federal dollars that PBS recieves, and was illegal for Americans to view up until 8 months ago.
Gb71 TIL an 18th century man faked his own death to see how people would react. When his wife didn’t cry he caned her.