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TIL 37% of job applications are submitted on Tuesday, more than any other day, because people hate their job most when they have to return to work on Monday

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PYE7O TIL: The New York Transit authority dumped over 2,500 subway cars into the Atlantic Ocean.
PKlE TIL that the reason flies are so hard to swat because they have 360 degree vision. They can detect where a hand/swatter is coming from, and position themselves to optimally fly away in the opposite direction.
8DBV TIL: The founder of Lululemon named it as such because he thought it would be funny to watch the Japanese try to pronounce it.
Zo9o TIL The platypus is actually not the only surviving member of its biological family. There is a small hedgehog like spiked ant-eater called a “Echidna” that is the only other surviving member of the same biological order. It is also the only other surviving mammal that lays eggs.
Zem4 TIL there is a 5 minute survey that predicts suicide risk in the person polled with a ~66% accuracy for 6 future weeks. It is called the “Hopelessness Scale”… and is exclusively available for around $60 from Pearson, a text book company that hyper-aggressively defends the survey’s copyright.