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TIL it’s still legal for an employer to fire someone–for any reason–if they’re a communist.

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6L87 TIL that there is only one surviving Ninjutsu master left. He has chosen not to appoint a new ninja grandmaster, and consequently let the lineage of the last surviving ninja clan die with him because “the art of ninjutsu has no place in the modern age.”
ADGMx TIL Colin Murdoch a New Zealand pharmacist made a number of significant inventions, in particular the tranquilliser gun, the disposable hypodermic syringe and the child-proof medicine container.
wo5M6 TIL Ted Kaczynski (aka the Unabomber) received an invitation in 2012 to the 50th reunion for Harvard’s 1962 undergraduate class while at ADX Florence prison. In his RSVP, he listed his occupation as ‘prisoner’.
OonR7 Not all planes end up in aircraft graveyards. There's a whole industry waiting to recycle commercial planes once they're retired and taken out of service.
mgBv TIL German nursing homes have fake bus stops to catch Alzheimer’s patients wondering off.