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TIL: Employees are more likely to steal from their workplace than the customers who shop there are.

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nWB87 TIL that, from July 2017 to February 2024, at least 108 people have been killed since the Brightline company began its high-speed train service in Florida. However, after National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) investigations, none of the deaths were found to be the fault of Brightline.
JYJ5m TIL that the chunks of ice that break off of icebergs are officially called "bergy bits"
epBm6 TIL that President Theodore Roosevelt was an accomplished author by the time he was 23, writing "The Naval War of 1812", called a seminal work in the field and highly influential on the development of the modern U.S. navy
MenQV TIL A Wankel Engine doesn't use pistons, but instead a rounded triangle that would spin in a combustion chamber. The last production car to use one came out in 2003, including a model that could use both hydrogen and gasoline in the same engine.
LkRBr TIL of the Bulwer-Lyton fiction contest, in which entrants are invited "to compose the opening sentence to the worst of all possible novels"