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TIL a woman donated a kidney to her boss, who then fired her when she took too long to recuperate from the procedure.

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Oo0YX TIL an average Artic tern, the world's most migratory bird, will travel the equivalent of a roundtrip from Earth to the Moon over 3 times during its lifetime.
VeZD TIL The 2016 plane crash which killed most of the Brazilian Chapecoense football team was caused by the pilot failing to make necessary fuel stops. The plane ran out of gas while in a holding pattern at its destination airport and fell out of the sky.
XEjgr TIL that there is a monument in Estonia honoring Estonians who served in the Nazi German Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS
9wMM TIL that Walt Disney slowed down a cartoon to 12 cycles and the viewers became sick for days
4vx5 TIL that during WWII, The Japanese would hand out candy to starving Chinese children. The candy was laced with anthrax (a deadly poison).