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TIL David Attenborough's full title is Sir David Attenborough OM CH CVO CBE FRS FSA and he also has 32 honorary degrees

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nW4Q9 TIL: Henry Ford introduced the $5 work day in 1914, doubling his avg employees wages overnight and investing $10m of profits back into his employees coining the term "profit sharing" which helped launch the American middle class and was seen as "an honest wage for an honest days work."
nm6Y TIL that Ben Cohen, co founder of Ben and Jerry’s ice cream, cannot smell. The reason the ice cream is characteristically chunky is because in order to compensate for his lack of taste he would add big pieces of fruit to the ice cream to satisfy his need for texture in food.
ArGa TIL on November 20, 2004, at the annual Harvard–Yale football game Yale students, costumed as a Harvard “pep squad”, gave out placards to a section of Harvard fans which, when raised together, read “WE SUCK”.
8dM8 TIL Plane exhaust kills more people than plane crashes. Approximately 10,000 people are killed annually from toxic pollutants from aircraft compared to around 1,000 from crashes
Vee4 TIL faking mental illness is actually considered a sign of psychopathy.