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TIL continually rising in rank until you reach the point of incompetence compared to your peers is called the Peter Principle

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nWJJb TIL Bill Cosby fired Lisa Bonet from A Different World because she got pregnant
M5mB TIL In the 1936 Presidential Election, Franklin D. Roosevelt won 523 electoral votes, while his opponent Alf Landon only won 8.
LkBn0 TIL Napoleon Bonaparte was once attacked by a hoard of hundreds of bunnies
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