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TIL that the Ancient Egyptians invented foie gras

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VrnQ TIL Christine Lagarde, Managing Director of the IMF, once walked out of a job interview at the biggest law firm in Paris. “I was told I should never expect to make partnership because I was a woman. I thought to myself: ‘You don’t deserve me, I’m going…why would I work with that kind of attitude?”
Or1a TIL that Lincoln had depression for most of his life and often contemplated suicide.
7rERL TIL Gonorrhoea can be treated with antibiotics, but a new Super-Gonorrhoea has emerged, which is resistant to anti-biotics.
aw0pb TIL A solar plant in the Mojave Desert generates so much heat it incinerates birds in mid flight
nedrb TIL the Teletubbies are canonically racially diverse and they live in the "Tubbytronic Superdome"