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TIL a company will fake your job references, or even your former company

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kO96g TIL the first four Dr. Seuss books were called Boners, More Boners, Still More Boners, and Prize Boners of 1932
LQEyP TIL that in 2007 90% of Vietnam's connection to the internet was taken down after fishermen severed a submarine cable so they could sell the expensive materials they salvaged.
VBlJk TIL of the ultra rare second-generation hybrid offspring of ligers and tigons — the litigon, liliger, tiliger and titigon.
Xn56 TIL New Zealander Nigel Richards memorized the French Scrabble dictionary in just 9 weeks and won the French-language Scrabble World Championship despite not knowing the language.
jb9p TIL of a man who invented flexible glass. After the Emperor tested his claim he swore that only he knew the technique. Emperor Tiberius then had the inventor beheaded fearing that such a material would undermine the value of gold and silver.