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TIL in 2006 a 1328 year old construction company liquidated in Japan.

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kJlp4 TIL fingernails grow nearly 3-4 times faster than toenails
KDLB TIL in 2006, the FBI planted a spy in a Southern California mosque and disguised him as a radical Muslim. The Muslims in the mosque ended up reporting him to the FBI for being a potentially dangerous extremist.
P1MkZ TIL A lesbian rule was historically a flexible rule used to measure or reproduce irregular curves.
WQZo TIL: The boss, not the workload, causes workplace depression: It is not a big workload that causes depression at work. An unfair boss and an unfair work environment are what really bring employees down (x-post from /r/science)
OoO6Y TIL having shot a man in the head, Andrew Lyons's lawyer argued for manslaughter. The victim died when a surgeon transplanted the heart from the brain-dead victim: Andrew's bullet wasn't fatal. Following the case California issued a law allowing surgeons to transplant organs from brain-dead patients