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TIL that 401ks are designed to supplement traditional pensions not replace them and they place greater investment risk on the employee than the employer

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b99NQ Feline allergies are caused by the same triggers as human allergies. Pets can even be allergic to people or, more likely, the chemicals on our skin.
xVp1o TIL a small town in Minnesota attempted to secede from the United States, as it could not get funding to fix it's water system, and believed that it would be easier to accept foreign aid. It received it's first "aid" in the form of a Ford squad car, and 10 cases of Jeno's Sausage Pizza Mix.
6ELxJ TIL that pilots in Australia and Canada are allowed to take a “controlled rest in position”, which is a nap in the cockpit, when it is safe to do so
Zpgdp TIL that the end of the northern part of the Pan-American Highway, (which extends all the way from Alaska to the tip of South America), abruptly ends in a nondescript residential neighborhood in Yaviza, Panama, north of the Darien Gap.
jKxM TIL the national speed limit was set at 55mph not for safety reasons, but to conserve fuel