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TIL that women can be fired for being attractive.

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JYZ8V TIL the young, unknown Afghan girl from the 1985 cover of National Geographic was located in 2002 and her identify was confirmed using iris recognition. She remembered being photographed in the mid-80s but had never seen the image of herself as a child before it was shown to her in January 2002.
E1777 TIL that 40% of type 2 diabetes is not related to weight or diet.
VMYwQ TIL a 2011 investigation found Disney’s best-selling “Cars” toys were being made in a factory in China that used child labour and forced staff to do three times the amount of overtime allowed by law
OR1 TIL for the episodes through June 2012 the Mythbusters have destroyed 146 vehicles, used 33,500 yards of duct tape, and blown up 13.5 tons of explosives.
NnJ TIL 20% of the entire world’s unfrozen freshwater is in a single lake.