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TIL engineers have the 5th highest suicide rate of all professions, right after factory workers.

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0wX7L TIL of the “next-in-line” effect—a phenomenon that causes people to regularly forget the names of the people they meet for the first time because they’re too focused on worrying about what they’ll say next to that person.
7BjP TIL: James Earl Jones drove cross-country and used Darth as his handle on the CB radio. The truck drivers would really freak out
d8e4K TIL the slippers of Dorthy in the Wizard of Oz book are silver but were changed to red for the movie to contrast better with the yellow brick road
OoLZg TIL Spray foam insulation can cause toxic air if its not mixed correctly or the temperature is too hot during curing
JGNm TIL that a woman from Northern England has 4 functioning colour cones (most of us have only 3) and that due to this she can see 99 million more colours than the average person.