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TIL: Economist Michael Housman used to data from 30,000 employees to find correlations between their preferred browser and job performance. Employees who used Firefox/Chrome stay 15% longer and were 19% less likely to miss work and had happier customers than employees who used IE or Safari.

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4rr6 TIL Lana Del Rey called feminism boring..“For me, the issue of feminism is just not an interesting concept. I’m more interested in, you know, SpaceX and Tesla, what’s going to happen with our intergalactic possibilities.”
e0P8L TIL that Andy Serkis ( most famous for voicing Gollum in “Lord of the Rings”) voices 26 characters in 21 movies including Supreme Leader Snoke in “Star Wars” and Caesar from “War for the Planet of the Apes”
X0ADr TIL the bronze Nazi eagle emblem from the WW2 German cruiser, Admiral Graf Spee has been recovered in Uruguay and will be melted down and recast as a dove
mxE6P TIL An 8 months Pregnant Mary Turner protested the lynching of her innocent husband Hayes Turner by a White mob in 1918 and threatened to have them arrested. In order to “teach her a lesson”, she and her unborn child were brutally murdered. No one was charged.
1D17 TIL that there are 14 people in the world with ‘keys’ to internet worldwide security ( 7 primary keepers, 7 back-up). They serve as a last-resort measure to reconstruct the system if something calamitous were to happen to the internet.