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TIL The shoe company ‘Atheist Shoes’ conducted an experiment where they sent packages with 'Atheist’ brand packing tape and neutral packing tape to the U.S. The 'Atheist’ marked packages took an average of 3 days longer to ship and where 10 times more likely to disappear.

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eKag TIL in 1954 the US Government launched Operation Wetback, a mass deportation of illegal mexican immigrants.
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VMEKZ TIL that Robert Metcalfe, the inventor of Ethernet, predicted in 1995 that the Internet would suffer a "catastrophic collapse" the next year, promising to eat his words if it did not. In 1997, he blended a printed copy of his prediction with some liquid and drank it.
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