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TIL that 8 percent of teachers walk away from the profession every year

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0wmdA TIL during the 1993 Yukon Quest sled dog race, musher Jeff Mann killed a moose with an axe after it attacked him and his dog team.
R5LKw TIL In 2001, a Yakuza mob boss named Tadamasa Goto gave a $100,000 donation to UCLA. In exchange, they gave him a liver transplant, allowing him to jump the queue. That same year, 186 people in the Los Angeles area died while waiting for a liver transplant. The FBI was also involved.
neyAY TIL that if you dug a tunnel through the center of Earth, and jumped in, and let gravity pull you through it will take you to reach the other side of the planet 42 minutes more or less
VMAWQ TIL --Christmas 2013 more than 250 passengers on Calgary-bound flights were part of a "Christmas miracle" done by WestJet. Santa Claus appeared on life-size screens at boarding gates and asked passengers what they wanted for Christmas. When the planes landed the gifts were on the baggage carousel.
ep5Pb TIL that while there are theories, we do not know conclusively why ice is slippery