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TIL: Some occupations are overrepresented in serial killers. The skilled labor jobs are aircraft mechanics, shoemakers, and car upholsterers. The semi-skilled/ unskilled jobs are arborists, Truckers, laborers, hotel porters, and gas station attendants.

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Oom4e Til:The Ringelmann effect is the tendency for individual members of a group to become increasingly less productive as the size of their group increases. As more people are involved in a task, their average performance decreases, each participant tending to feel that their own effort is not critical.
P10RJ TIL that Ted Cruz was born in Alberta.
NXyee TIL In 1910, Canada tried to attract settlers with its campaign "The Last Best West" to promote free land with the slogan "Living is cheap; climate is good; education and land are free.” More than two million settlers from Europe and the US poured into the prairies from 1896 to 1914
XRRR TIL that it costs 1.8 cents to make a penny and that the penny can’t be used in any machine in the entire U.S. that produces a product or a service.
5EyR TIL that the Utah state bird is actually the California Gull because in 1848 the gulls flew in flocks from California to the Salt Lake Valley and consumed tens of thousands of “Mormon Crickets” that were devouring the crops, saving the harvest. It’s called ‘The miracle of the gulls’.