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TIL Children develop more creativity, critical thinking, collaboration and communication skills when they throw away Lego instructions and build things together with others using their own imagination. Routine, manual jobs are increasingly automated, whereas the 'new work' is non-routine cognitive

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1aQy4 TIL nearly every single resident of Whittier, AK (population 200+) lives in the Begich Towers Condominium. The Whittier Police Department, hospital, mayor’s office, etc., are also located in the same complex.
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