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Today I learned that avalanches can’t be triggered by sound I have been lied to

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POlL TIL Germany has a “Codetermination” law that balances the interests of workers and capitalists by allowing workers to elect half the board directors in any corporation larger than 2000 people. In corporations between 500 and 2000 people, the workers can elect 1/3 of the board of directors.
V9Q4 TIL a previously unknown species of beaked whale has been discovered in the northern Pacific. It’s black, 24 feet long, and has only been seen from dead animals that have washed up on the beach.
Eg8lV TIL about the Lost Cause myth that originated after the Civil War by white Southerners to justify their defeat by downplaying slavery's role, celebrating an idealized South, and persisting through Confederate monuments and racial ideologies that ignore the true nature of slavery or the Civil War.
n6j7 TIL George Carlin was court-martialed three times in less than three years during his service in the Air Force, once for smoking a joint in the crawlspace of a B-47.
XEQnD TIL that there is a company attempting to heal aging and noise-related permanent hearing loss by utilizing the same regenerative properties naturally found in our intestines