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TIL that 1 in 2 Employees in the US in 2016 Would Leave Their Current Job If They Got a Better Offer

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gM1W8 TIL Julie Andrews lost the ability to sing due to a botched vocal surgery in 1997
XBlQ TIL There were as many as 60,000,000 (60 million) bisons in 1800. In 1900, there were only 300 left due to mass-hunting. A handful of ranchers saved the species from extinction. Today, the number of bisons is about 500,000. However, only 15 to 25 thousand of these are pure bisons and not hybrids.
b6RbN TIL that after England was knocked out of Euro 2004 by Portugal, English tabloids found the email address of the Swiss referee and published it. He received 16,000 hate emails overnight. After that "the Sun" also published the email address of a Swiss radio DJ, who tried to defend his compatriot
GYk81 TIL American rapper Twista still holds the record for the world's fastest rapper. In 1992, the Guinness Book of World Records recorded him pronouncing 598 syllables in 55 seconds.
Y9RG TIL the clerk who approved Alexander Graham Bell’s patent over rival Elisha Gray did so after Bell helped him repay a loan to a friend (who happened to be Bell’s lawyer).