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TIL google pays their gay and lesbian employees more to compensate for the extra tax they have to pay that heterosexuals don’t

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96op TIL 8 of the top 10 cities with highest unemployment rates in America are in California.
VBR64 TIL of Khaled al-Assad, a Syrian archaeologist who in 2015 gave his life to protect the ancient city of Palmyra from destruction by IS militants. Under torture and pain of death, he refused to reveal the location of priceless artifacts he’d hidden away.
1RZd TIL that in 2007, reddit helped name a humpback whale, now known as “Mr. Splashy Pants”
9YvNM TIL in the 1600s to avoid slavery a group of Africans on St. Vincent Island acquired the customs and language of the Native American group Kalipona so that Europeans would consider them to be native and leave them alone.
d9oZ TIL Rudy Eugene, the “Bath Salts Zombie” that bit off a man’s face in 2012 while supposedly high on Bath Salts, had no sign of the drug in his system (or any drug other than marijuana) when the attack occurred.