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TIL Nobody has ever been fired from Valve for making a mistake.

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xV5vg TIL the "tail suspension test" is one method researchers use to measure depression in rats. Subjects are hung upside down by their tails and timed to measure how long it takes the rat to stop struggling and accept its fate.
Golg TIL The Massachusetts Language, once spoken by several Algonquin tribes, went extinct in the 1800s. However several documents survived such as Bibles, treaties, and sales papers. In 1993 the Wampanoag tribe started teaching classes and now there are over 400 secondary and 4 native speakers.
oBLpo TIL Anna Nicole Smith never actually got money when her 90-year-old husband died. His will left his $1.6 billion estate to his son and nothing to her.
wmr8 TIL that the ♥ shape came from the Silphium plant, a now extinct contraceptive plant used by the Romans
6EARW TIL of the Ikh Khorig, or Great Taboo: an area of almost a hundred square miles in Mongolia believed to contain Genghis Khan's resting place. The area was patrolled by elite guards and their descendants for centuries, and was only opened to archaeologists in 1989.