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TIL Goodwill is using a loophole to pay disabled workers as little as 22 cents an hour

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xLW0 TIL of Blissymbolics, an unspoken, written language that was invented as an easy to learn form of communication for use between people of all languages
4Xo0R TIL that cashiers have the 15th safest occupation in the United States but the leading cause of workplace death in that profession is homicide. 39 out of 47 cashier deaths in 2018 were caused by violence from another person
ZaW4 TIL-Ryan Stiles, from Whose Line is it Anyway, had many of his flamboyant shoes custom made since his height and shoe size made it problematic for him to buy shoes from a store.
OwER TIL Eisenhower, despite his military background, pursued a non-autocratic decision making method as President, which relied on listening to diverse views and then relentlessly pursuing common ground between his advisers.
oR1GW TIL in 1986, the LA Times still put “Rap” in quotes describing the music in a headline.