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

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R7QOj TIL that scientists speculate Caesarian Sections are changing human evolution. A new study suggests that an increasingly common reason women undergo C-sections is because their pelvis is too narrow, this number is up 10-20% from the 1960s.
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