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TIL that companies can legally discriminate against people who smoke

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myMY TIL About 10 Blockbuster stores remain open, mostly in Alaska thanks to freezing weather and expensive, slow Wi-Fi.
pYol8 TIL that in 12th-century England, two children with green skin mysteriously appeared in the village of Woolpit. They spoke an unknown language and claimed to be from an entirely green world called St Martin's Land. It is thought to be the worlds first sci-fi folk tale.
EgdVX TIL of Porphyrios. A whale that harassed Byzantine Sailors for over 50 years, even sinking numerous ships.
0aRN TIL: The Acanthopis snake is known as the Death Adder but that name is, somewhat ironically, a mishearing of the original name ‘Deaf Adder’ which comes from the fact that, unlike other snakes, they do not run away from human disturbance.
0AxA TIL During the Second World War, the U.S. Army discovered that colorblind soldiers could distinguish camouflaged targets better than their counterparts with color vision could.