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TIL as of 2019, the quit rate of U.S. employees was at a record-breaking high of 2.3%, the highest it's been in 15 years. That number remained unchanged for 11 straight months, from June 2018 through May 2019, making the longest static period for the rate on record.

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VWmB TIL the word vaccine comes from the Latin root “vacca,” meaning cow. This is due to the discovery that smallpox could be prevented by inoculating patients with the much less severe cowpox virus.
ep4bD TIL Alaska is not an island and is actually attached to the continental United States.
69VYJ TIL there are an estimated 950 TRILLION invasive quagga mussels in Lake Michigan.
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