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

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woo11 TIL that Jamaica is the only national flag without the colors red, white or blue.
pYR8e TIL that Brad Pitt suffers from Prosopagnosia (Face Blindness)
xK57 TIL that there is a single book in a wooden box on the highest free-standing mountain in the world (Mt. Kilimanjaro) that has the thoughts of “nearly every climber who has summitted its Uhuru Peak.”
GAwn1 TIL about Frederick Roberts, British General and the only other person of the 20th Century apart from Winston Churchill to lie in state in Westminster Hall that wasn't a member of the British Royal Family
wBvY TIL a scientist at the University of Florida, USA, grew a “living ‘brain’” – “a network of 25,000 rat brain cells” – that when “connected to an array of 60 electrodes that can interact with a computer” learned to fly a simulated F-22 stealth fighter jet in a range of weather conditions.