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TIL there is a stigma against hiring unemployed people even if they are actively looking for work

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AN987 TIL that Julie Kavner has a clause in her Simpsons contract that she doesn't have to promote herself on camera as Marge's voice
4kmgb TIL in 1970 Robert White successfully transplanted the head of a rhesus monkey onto another decapitated monkey. It survived for eight days, able to smell, hear, see, and move its mouth. But it was paralyzed from the neck down, as White was unable to reconnect the severed spinal cord.
Y7Z8v TIL about Le Théâtre du Grand-Guignol or "The Theatre of the Great Puppet" (known as the Grand Guignol) was a theatre in Paris that, from its opening in 1897 until its closing in 1962, specialized in naturalistic horror shows.
BgxrL TIL The color of your bread tie indicates the day on which the bread was baked
m7KE TIL in 1980, CNN had a video to sign off with in case of nuclear war