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TIL Missouri law prohibits employers from requiring that their employees have identifying microchip implants.

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kOLj1 TIL at least 749 American servicemen were killed in England, April 1944, during large-scale rehearsals for D-Day. Rumoured 450 friendly fire deaths were followed the next day with 749 deaths by attacking E-boats. The incident was under the strictest secrecy and was only nominally reported afterwards
m1eZx TIL About a transplant of a man's middle finger as a penis (including bones), and that it was still functional a decade later
D1ogY TIL of a bacterium that does photosynthesis without sunlight. Instead it uses thermal "black-body" radiation. It was discovered in 2005 on a deep-sea hydrothermal vent, at a depth of 2400 m, in complete darkness.
Y7XRZ TIL of Hannah Beswick; who was so afraid of being buried alive that she paid her physician to be kept above ground and be provisionally checked for signs of life after she died. She was finally buried 110 years after her death, being declared "irrevocably and unmistakably dead"
0xpy TIL the sole difference between a honey bee worker and a queen bee is in nourishment during the maturation process. Queen bees get feed royal jelly their entire life while worker bees only get royal jelly the first two days of their larval stage.