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TIL that, except under exceptional circumstances, drug testing for employment is not allowed in Canada, because it does not respect the Canadian Human Rights Act.

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78DQO Today I learned Hurricane Beryl in 2024 was the earliest category 5 hurricane ever in the Atlantic.
ZneG TIL despite the stereotype of a very short life, with proper care, an average Goldfish can live up to 10 years as pets, and over 25 years in the wild. The longest recorded lifespan for a Goldfish was 43 years.
9LG6 TIL Alexis Ohanian said about Digg v4 “You chose to grow with venture capital… this new version of digg reeks of VC meddling. It’s cobbling together features from more popular sites and departing from the core of digg, which was to “give the power back to the people.”
0d1my TIL, scholars in southwest India discovered one of the founding principles of modern mathematics hundreds of years before Newton
NXXbb TIL that Alzheimer’s disease can be caused by a brain immune response to herpes infection. This theory dates to the early 1900s, but was ignored because the scientist was Jewish, while Alzheimer, who named the disease, was German.