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TIL that the great majority of jobs are filled through intrapersonal and professional connections and are never advertised to the greater public.

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GYxW7 TIL Vladivostok (Russia) is geographically closer to Darwin, Australia, than it is to the nation's capital of Moscow.
JKjV TIL when Soviet Minister Molotov stated that the cluster bombs being dropped on Finland were actually food, the Finns began sarcastically calling the bombs “Molotov bread baskets,” which they responded to with their own “Molotov cocktails,” as “a drink to go with the food.”
7j97 TIL the British online newspaper ‘The Independent’ is owned by Russian oligarch, Alexander Lebedev and his son. Lebedev also owns a stake in Gazprom, a Russian oil company headquarter in Moscow, and a stake in Sbrerbank, a Russian bank accused of funding insurgents in Ukraine.
kbwg TIL: A woman named Alicia Head claimed to be a survivor of the 911 attacks at the WTC under the name Tania Head. She joined the World Trade Center Survivors’ Network support group, later becoming its president and was frequently mentioned in media reports. Her story was revealed to be a hoax in 2007
OokMX TIL dolphins and porpoises have a number of differences, and here are just two of them. Dolphins’ teeth are cone-shaped, while porpoises’ teeth are spade-shaped. Dolphins typically have a bulbous head and a clearly-defined "beak"; porpoises usually have a rounder face without the pronounced beak.