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TIL that the humans cannot actually multitask. We really just rapidly switch our focus between multiple tasks.

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16g8X TIL Tom Brady was drafted by the Montreal Expos baseball team while still in high school, but instead chose to play football in college. This technically makes him the last player drafted by the Expos still playing professional sports.
QJo1p TIL of Cibella Borges, a female NYC cop who was fired from her job after it was revealed she posed for a nude magazine prior to becoming an officer. She was reinstated three years later and awarded $80,000 in backpay
woK6 TIL A ‘Tobacco Enema’, blowing smoke up someones backside, used to be used as a method of resuscitation when someone had drowned
pao8 TIL credit card companies have unpublished backdoor numbers that allow you to speak to an analyst that has the power to approve your application when it has been declined, lower your APR, or raise your limit.
b9yGE TIL less than five per cent of the victims of transatlantic slavery were landed on the coast of the present-day United States. Most enslaved Africans were carried to the Caribbean (45 per cent) or to Brazil (45 per cent).