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TIL that companies can legally discriminate against people who smoke

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X00k6 TIL An Octopus in a lab would escape from it’s tank, climb into another to eat fish & then return to it’s own before the scientists came back and caught it. That’s how clever they are.
M7PDW TIL Game of Thrones became the most pirated TV show in history, with the season 7 finale streamed or downloaded over 1 billion times. By season 8, illegal viewership doubled legal numbers with 55M downloads for the premiere. HBO eventually embraced the piracy buzz, calling it a “free-to-play” model.
GAMKE TIl there is a religion called "Mama Tata" which was founded by someone who saw a vision of Jesus riding a motorcycle
oBQpr TIL that the titanium screw caps holding a deep-sea submersible's viewport together experience a maximum load of up to 22 million pounds.
D1YwJ TIL during WWII, Japanese ships heavily underestimated the depths American submarines could get to, often allowing them to escape. This secret was ruined when Congressman Andrew May revealed the information at a press conference, resulting in an estimated loss of 10 submarines and 800 men.