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TIL if in 2001 you bought $399 in Apple stock instead of buying the original iPod, today that stock would be worth $65,000

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kyve TIL All new FBI agents are required to visit the Holocaust Memorial Museum
Y1MB TIL A man once faked his own death to get out of a Verizon Wireless contract.
M7M0B TIL that in 1930, the 22 million pound Indiana Bell building was shifted 52 feet (16 m) south, rotated 90 degrees, and then shifted again 100 feet (30 m) west. The services they provided for telephone, water, sewage, gas, and electricity were all unaffected. The 600 employees inside felt nothing.
6QmW TIL it is illegal for US Firms to boycott Israel - up to 10 years in prison
eK76 TIL that a paper published in the Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology concluded “This paper provides support for the "Rotten Barrel” theory of police deviant behavior, which holds that the stressful conditions of the police occupation constitute a primary risk factor for police misconduct.“