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TIL: 70% of Americans polled either hate their job or are “disengaged” from their work, and even perks don’t work if they’re unhappy with management.

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kJB1B TIL Tommy Lee Jones sells coffee in Japan
yVnWV TIL Robert Duvall turned down the role of Woodrow Call in Lonesome Dove to play Gus McCrae, calling it one of the best roles he’d ever seen. His performance was so memorable that fans sometimes weep when visiting Gus’s mannequin, taken from his coffin scene, now displayed at Texas State University.
KYKvR TIL Princess Zelda from The Legend of Zelda was named after Zelda Fitzgerald, the wife of F. Scott Fitzgerald
x6bL0 TIL Leon Trotsky was killed with an ice axe, an axe used for climbing icy mountains, not an axe made out of ice
e0Y55 TIL Poland broke Enigma over six years before WWII started and had built machines to automate it by 1938, long before Alan Turing improved the design.