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TIL A study at UT Austin determined that accepting a job below one’s skill level can adversely affect future employment prospects

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Jl8v TIL that between the time it was discovered and the time it was unclassified as a planet, Pluto did not even complete one revolution around the sun. It will complete its revolution in the year 2178.
dWxQ TIL, That Nutella varies in taste and texture depending on which country its sold in.
oR1VW TIL the earliest known human name belonged to an accountant in Sumer called Kushim. Kushim also made the first recorded math error in human history
Qa5e TIL passenger pigeons were once the most abundant bird in the world. John James Audubon once saw a flock that took three days to pass. Alexander Wilson reckoned that a flock he saw contained 2,230,272,000 individuals. The bird was hunted to it’s extinction, which came on September 1, 1914.
epEP6 TIL the word Utopia was invented by Renaissance Humanist scholar and writer Sir Thomas More, in a fictional 16th-century novel about an ideal society. He was eventually beheaded by Henry VIII for refusing to recognize the King's Church Of England.