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TIL that 37% of Brits believe their jobs are meaningless.

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xdgg TIL Over 4500 missiles were fired at the SR-71 over 25 years without a hit
Me8Rm TIL that the word 'Eskimo' is considered derogatory and was a word used by non-native colonizers to refer to people living in the Arctic regions
b9v07 TIL between 1972 and 2018 the world population has doubled to nearly 8 billion, there were only 2.6 billion people in the world in 1951.
oKnY TIL during Mike Tyson’s rape trial, he was offered a 6 month probation to plead guilty. His response: “I’d spend the rest of my life in jail, I’m not pleading guilty to something I didn’t do.” The woman who accused him has had one prior history of false rape accusation.
JGKQ TIL that rubies and sapphires are scientifically the same mineral. Rubies are the red variety and sapphires encompasses any other color, with blue being the most popular and common.