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TIL An estimated 81 percent of people lie during a job interview

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PMVV TIL that in 2010 a robot programmed to fall in love got a little too attached to a woman and wouldn’t let her leave the room.
87oL TIL the first and the last British soldiers to die in WWI are coincidentally buried only 15 feet apart. In the 4 year period between their deaths, nearly a million other British/Commonwealth troops died.
6E07 TIL that the Toyota MR2 had to be renamed in France, as the pronunciation of MR2 sounds similar to the French words for “It is shitty”
NGQJ TIL that the NYPD actively profiles citizens in order to meet “performance standards” aka quotas or else officers get penalized for not having enough “stop and frisk” arrests and summons
xbGw TIL The Beatles refused to play to a segregated audience as stipulated in their contract in 1965