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TIL that Takashi Yamazaki, the director of Godzilla: Minus One worked on the puppets used in the SNES Star Fox marketing

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R7Ej6 TIL: A 2017 study by statistician Nathan Yau found the career divorce rates. Bartenders, flight attendants , massage therapists, and nurses had the highest at around 45-50%. Meanwhile, actuaries had the lowest at 17%, followed by software developers, engineers, scientists, and eye doctors.
yPmX TIL that the democratically elected government of Iran was ousted by the CIA in 1953 because they nationalised their oil.
0L5L TIL a woman changed clothes while on a tour of Iceland and people thought she went missing because they didn’t recognize her. The woman joined a search party looking for herself.
GY1P4 TIL Some male beetles’ sexual organs have barbs and spikes like medieval torture devices. The wounds given to the female during sex are an “unfortunate side effect” and does not benefit the reproductive process.
eWEJ TIL Steve Jobs “eliminated all corporate philanthropy programs” at Apple when he became CEO and declined to join Bill Gates’ “Giving Pledge”