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TIL The word ‘flaneur’ refers to a person that wonders around and observes society, a man who is not aimless in being but is not stressed of his life, he doesn’t worry about anything and is free from society’s pressures. He is a man that exists to observe.

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mxJOE TIL John Gotti's 13 year old son was struck by a car and killed when he darted out into a street on a mini motorbike. The driver of the vehicle, a neighbor whose son had previously slept over at the Gotti house, disappeared 5 months later. He was allegedly shot in the head and dissolved in acid
EgMeo TIL a Harvard study found that hiring one highly productive ‘toxic worker’ does more damage to a company’s bottom line than employing several less productive, but more cooperative, workers.
JY5e4 TIL that scientists had to rename as many as 27 human genes because Microsoft Excel kept misreading their symbols as dates
BLZK TIL that Van Cats of Eastern Turkey (a naturally-occurring breed) all have white fur, mismatched eyes, and love to swim.
gQD TIL WiFi was invented in Australia by CSIRO scientists and received $220 million dollars from US companies in compensation for using the technology.