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TIL New employees at Google are given a propeller beanie cap to wear on their first Friday.

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7Lyx TIL of Robert Peace, a ‘black guy from the hood’ who ended up graduating from Yale with honors in molecular biophysics and biochemistry, moving back to his 'hood’ and teaching biology at his old highschool, engineering his own strain of Marijuana and getting killed over a drug deal
16BLr TIL the land bought for Disney World in Florida is the same size as Paris, France
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