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TIL The Coca-Cola Company briefly had a syndicated television arm in the mid-80s. It helped produce series such as “Punky Brewster”, “Dinosaucers”, “The New Gidget”, and “Starcom: The U.S. Space Force”.

by whatilearned July 4, 2022, 7:54 pm

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TIL King John of England deposited the crown jewels with the Knights Templar in London when he was in trouble before the Magna Carta. They were providing the world’s first international banking company.

by whatilearned July 4, 2022, 12:49 pm

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TIL King John of England deposited the crown jewels with the Knights Templar in London when he was in trouble before the Magna Carta. They were providing the world’s first financial-services company.

by whatilearned July 4, 2022, 12:08 pm

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TIL: Tai Lopez, the infamous YouTube con-man, co-founded a company that currently owns Pier1 Imports, RadioShack, and Modell’s Sporting Goods. The company is currently trying to turn RadioShack into a crypto exchange.

by whatilearned July 3, 2022, 8:58 am

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TIL that Scotts Miracle-Gro Company knowingly sold poisoned bird seed for over 2 years. They sold 70+ million bags of bird seed with a pesticide toxic to birds to help with insect control during storage. Scotts paid a fine of $4 million and give an additional $500,000 donation to wildlife study.

by whatilearned July 2, 2022, 9:57 pm

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TIL St. Louis Bread Company is referred to as Panera outside of the St. Louis metropolitan area. The name change to Panera came about in 1997 during the company’s interstate expansion. It continues to operate as Saint Louis Bread Company in the Greater St. Louis area, where it has over 100 locations

by whatilearned July 2, 2022, 8:12 pm

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TIL There was a two month period in 1617 where both Pocahontas and Squanto were in London. Pocahontas lived with the Treasurer of the Virginia Company and Squanto was living with the Treasurer for the Newfoundland Company. They lived only a few hundred yards from each other.

by whatilearned July 2, 2022, 4:39 pm

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Your username is now a company, what do you sell?

by QuestionGuy June 30, 2022, 6:34 pm

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If the corporate building for a company is called a headquarters, what do you call the gym?

by cringeyjokesman June 29, 2022, 12:13 pm

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TIL That the term ‘Jadotville Jack’ was used to describe members of A Company 35th Batallion Irish Army. The term was in reference to the unit’s forced surrender after a siege from a numerically superior mercenary force and the Irish government/UN’s refusal to decorate any survivors of the battle.

by whatilearned June 28, 2022, 3:37 pm

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TIL A company in the 90’s made pencils with the anti-drug slogan “Too Cool to Do Drugs” but had to recall them because, when sharpened, they read “Do Drugs”

by whatilearned June 28, 2022, 1:04 am

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TIL the black cat mascot of Seattle’s Fire Station #9 is borrowed, with authorization, from the Eveready battery company. It symbolizes the station’s readiness to respond, while station #9 corresponds to their 9 volt battery.

by whatilearned June 27, 2022, 10:16 pm

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