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

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NX6nM TIL At big banks, “Vice President” sounds impressive but means little. Thousands hold the title—often with no raise, power, or real change. It usually just means you’ve been there a while. Many get the title with no real job change. Goldman once had 12,000 VPs—about 40% of the company, said its CEO.
69N4W TIL Arthur Ashe published a three-volume book in 1988 titled A Hard Road to Glory: A History of the African-American Athlete. He worked with researchers for nearly six years on the book and later stated that the book meant more to him than any of his tennis titles.
4kM4a TIL the first thing the one-armed John Lind did the moments after he was finished with his term as Minnesota’s Governor was go to a local newspaper and punch the face of an editor who had questioned his loyalty to the US during his term.
4kZng TIL that Rubberducking is a technique used by programmers to help find errors in their code. Explaining their code to a duck or any other inanimate object out loud can help them spot issues as they talk it through.
lokMa TIL that both Seth Macfarlane and Mark Wahlberg were due to be on flights involved in the 9/11 attacks but due to errors and last-minute changes they ended up not being on board.