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TIL that police can refuse to interview job applicants if they score too high on an intelligence test

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xMog TIL that there are species of fish which have symbiotic relationships with certain types of shrimp where the shrimp provides shelter and the goby provides security alerts to help them avoid predators.
1a5MW TIL more than half of all new PhDs in the US are fake
6E07m TIL Persian leader Cyrus the Great liberated the Jewish people from captivity in Babylon 538 BCE. Isaiah 45:1 of the Hebrew Bible even refers to him as a messiah and he is the only non-Jewish figure in the Bible to be called so.
9wPgX TIL: Between approx 1.000.000 and 560.000 years ago there were hippopotamus roaming Europe. The Hippopotamus antiquus ranged from the Iberian Peninsula to the British Isles to the Rhine River to Greece.
VBE9p TIL that potting soil can spontaneously combust!