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TIL of the Peter Principle: Employees are promoted based on performance in their current role, not their ability to perform a new role. People rise to their level of incompetence.

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9YYM7 TIL that Hitler approved of a school to talk to dogs. One dog, when asked "Who is Adolf Hitler?" was trained to reply "Mein Fuhrer!"
ANr8B Today I learned artic researcher have freezers to keep their icecream warm.
ne5vY TIL The English vocabulary makes it very difficult to describe smells - we can only describe odors by comparing the smell to other things
ZPba TIL that “stranger danger” is a myth: Children are twice as likely to be killed by a relative and 20x more likely to be killed by their parents than at the hands of a stranger.
NXbRe TIL tomato is both fruit and vegetable