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TIL welders are not allowed to get MRIs because of the possibility of microscopic metal fragments lodged within their body

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7BX7 TIL that every Treasurer of The United States since 1949 has been a woman.
dpjQ TIL those weird times when you learn some new random or obscure piece of information and then proceed encounter it all over the place or run into it conversation soon afterwords does in fact have a name: The Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon.
xrNg TIL Google hires programmers through their own search engine
RbQl TIL that there is an island in Japan where there are 3 sacred rules: no cutting down trees, no giving birth, and no dying…
7LdL TIL The Cult of Pythagoras didn’t eat beans because they thought you lose your soul when you fart.