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TIL that in January the Department of Labor adopted a new test for unpaid internships to require that the employer get “no immediate advantage” from the activities of the intern

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kJ1OB TIL: The Church of Satan does not believe in Satan as a deity. They consider themselves “skeptical atheists.”
Z8kZD TIL in 1824, Thomas Jefferson introduced legislature for the United States to end slavery by purchasing all slave children, train them for various skills and crafts, and then send them to the Dominican Republic.
R5xv6 TIL that the shape of a Pringle is called "hyperbolic paraboloid", and has its own equation.
GYRJ7 TIL that Waluigi's name is actually a pun. In Japanese, Warui means "bad", so combining this with Luigi gives Waluigi, whose name is literally "Luigi, but bad".
JWg1 TIL that Vin Diesel has never met his father, and doesn’t know what race he is.