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TIL that Apple Makes New Employees Work on Fake Products Until Apple Can Trust Them

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gMy5L TIL about the Stoned Ape Theory, which suggests that the consumption of magic mushrooms by early humans is one of the factors that led to the rapid increase of the brain/cranium size.
pYnjQ TIL NATO logo does not say NATO backwards. NATO is an acronym for North Atlantic Treaty Organization. OTAN is an acronym for the French translation of that. Organisation du traité de l'Atlantique nord.
R7gnl TIL In Oklahoma, it can take a teacher, with a degree, 11 years to reach QuikTrip’s starting salary for full-time employees with just a high school diploma.
0wb15 TIL That Tanis - The "Lost City" was made famous by the Indiana Jones movie Raiders of the Lost Ark, is a real city and located in the Nile Delta northeast of Cairo, was capital of the 21st and 22nd dynasties, during the reign of the Tanite kings in Egypt's Third Intermediate period.
obDY TIL that bread did not exist in Japan until 1543, when it was brought to the archipelago by Portuguese missionaries. The new food was initially popular, but disappeared once the country cut ties with the west. It would not be eaten again until the 19th century.