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TIL that most managers do not get any management training

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8mE4 TIL a gymnast scored a perfect 10 in the 1976 olympics, the scoreboard couldn’t go that high so a 1.0 was displayed
8woL TIL that there is a town Honduras where once a year, hundreds of small silver fish rain from the sky. Locals are stumped on where the fish come from or why the fish are blind.
QJoDM TIL Einstein didn't know how to swim, but he refused to wear a lifejacket. He was always running his boat aground because he was so busy relaxing that he didn’t look to see where he was going. His family was convinced that if he didn’t drown, he’d get his head smashed by the masts and spars.
XX4E TIL to find interstellar life, one of the things astronomers look out for is a Dyson Sphere, a power plant which harnesses the power of its solar system’s sun by surrounding it with solar panels. It is theorized to be a logical necessity for a spacefaring civilization to sustain intergalactic travel
w6A7 TIL The Iron Snail, lives in the Indian Ocean, more than 2,500 metres deep, it is the only known gastropod with a suit of scale armour, the scales and the shell are mineralised with iron sulfide, these snails make a skeleton out of iron, it’s the only animal so far known to do so.