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TIL: After 4 weeks of training, Zappos offers all new employees $2,000 to quit.

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yQ9Kv Today I learned about femcels, although I still don't believe I fully understand it all. Up until now I had only known incels.
8aawP TIL about courtroom dogs that help children feel comfortable enough to testify against their abusers.
GY0b5 TIL In the early 1960s The Friars Club unknowingly hosted a 5-year long elaborate card cheating scheme involving celebrities, the mafia, an accomplice peering through a hole in the ceiling, and wireless codes sent to a vibrating device hidden on the cheater at the table below. Millions were lost.
N7Ax6 TIL about Charles Lightoller, a man who survived the Titanic, World War I, and then went on to help others survive Dunkirk
b9bj0 TIL that only 2 songs sung by villains have been nominated by the Academy for best song: “Mean Green Mother from Outer Space” from Little Shop of Horrors and “Blame Canada” from the South Park movie. “Mean Green” was also the first with profanity to be nominated.