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TIL about the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire of 1911, wherein 146 garment workers died because of the factory owners’ decision to keep all exit doors locked to prevent theft and unauthorized breaks. The owners of the company survived and made roughly $400 per worker due to the insurance payout.
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TIL in 1972 a traveling circus set up in the village of Uquakwa, IL. Overnight, their elephant was tethered to a tree in the park. Lightning struck and killed the elephant. The panicked Circus owners packed up all of their gear, and scurried out of town, leaving the 6500 lb dead Pachyderm behind.
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TIL 75% of truck owners use their truck for towing one time a year or less (meaning, never). Nearly 70% of truck owners go off-road one time a year or less. And a full 35% of truck owners use their truck for hauling—putting something in the bed, its ostensible raison d’être—once a year or less.
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TIL Jerry Van Dyke, brother of Dick, had turned down the role of Gilligan in Gilligan’s Island. He was also in the running to in the shoes of Don Knotts on the Andy Griffith show before he got his own sitcom in 1965: My Mother, the Car, a show about a car possessed by the owners’ mother.
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