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TIL that piercings can be rejected by the body

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j6Q4E TIL Flight Attendants don’t get paid a full wage for the boarding process, some don’t get paid at all. AirCanada strike is exposing me to the unfair world for flight employees!
po4A TIL that Microsoft Encarta (original codename “Gandalf”) began as a pet project for Bill Gates around 1985 after being rejected by Encyclopaedia Britannica as a partner in making material available to PC users as a CD-ROM. Encarta’s eventual demise in 2009 was widely attributed to Wikipedia
yW0l TIL the Aardvark is the lone species in its genus which is the lone genus in its family which is the lone family in its order.
0wGoM TIL Clifford Stoll, author of The Cuckoo's Egg, caught a KGB recruit by making the world's first honeypot trap using 50 old computer terminals and an office phone line. The network access issue that led Stoll to the hacker was initially over 9 seconds of unpaid computer time in a library.
v1bDL TIL Scouser John A. Brodie, who invented the goal net for use in football matches, also engineered the world's longest underwater road tunnel (Mersey Tunnel, a record held for 24 years), and also chose the site where New Delhi stands today.