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TIL The Nova Effect - events in life cause intense change of a person’s thinking

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7Vn7 TIL being unemployed for 2 years can actually be worse for your job prospects than having a criminal record
W7yy8 TIL Companies save more than $3 billion a year in unspent gift cards.
mxgvx TIL that civil rights legend John Lewis once attended Comic-Con dressed as himself during the March on Selma. He led the children in a march around the convention center wearing the same kind of coat and backpack as he did at Selma.
5J0p TIL António Moniz, the surgeon who developed the frontal lobotomy procedure to make people calm and docile, was shot by one of his lobotomized patients.
WMKo TIL that the US Gov’t took the land on which Mt Rushmore was built from the Sioux nation, and developed Mt. Rushmore on sacred Sioux grounds without any compensation. The US Gov’t has offered over 1 Billion Dollars in compensation, but the Sioux refuse to take it, saying the land was never for sale.