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TIL People with typically African American names are less likely to get interviews even when the contents of the resume are the same.

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b64aZ TIL of the Canadian Shield.The Shield makes up roughly 50 per cent of Canada’s land mass, was formed over 3 billion years through processes such as plate tectonics, erosion and glaciation, and contains some of the oldest known rocks on Earth.
5Mw8 TIL that Chinese people born in the year of the dragon are actually less successful on average because parents try to have children during these years and it causes increased competition for limited university spots
j6Ekn TIL that a meteor strike in a very isolated area of Siberia in 1908 flattened 830 miles of forest. It is the largest meteor strike ever recorded, it was called the Tunguska Event.
grnaL TIL that the Vatican has a telescope in Arizona
69RW TIL Bill Gates wealth topped $100 billion for a brief period in 1999, but antitrust trials and tech stocks decline saw his fortune fall to just over $60 billion the following year.