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TIL Because Sharks have no rib cages, on land their weight can literally crush their own body.

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4n6b TIL Sony and other Japanese companies have banishment rooms where they transfer surplus employees and give them menial or useless tasks or even nothing to do until they become depressed or disheartened enough to quit on their own, thus not getting full benefits
KwNa TIL there is a sandwich shop called the ‘Earl of Sandwich’ founded by the current Earl of Sandwich, and descendent of the inventor of the sandwich. Sandwich.
Yp8mx TIL of Jaycee Dugard, an 11-year old girl who was kidnapped in 1991 only to be found when her kidnapper walked into a school in 2009 with two young girls claiming they were his daughters. They were in fact his daughters, their mother being Jaycee; a prisoner for 18 years and a mother at 14.
Br0ak TIL That Alabama despite being outside tornado alley. Has the highest number of fatalities from tornadoes since 1991.
nP7W TIL for almost 20 years, and against JFK’s orders, all US nuclear weapons were secured with the combination password of “0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0”