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TIL in the U.S. it’s illegal for employers to tell employees not to talk to their co-workers about compensation

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0OYy TIL that the flag of Saudi Arabia is never flown at half-mast as a sign of mourning, as lowering it is considered blasphemous.
yVW8w TIL that the world's largest desert is not the Sahara, but Antarctica. While the Sahara is the largest hot desert, Antarctica is the largest cold desert, spanning over 14 million square kilometers.
lGRN TIL: in 2006 a man in Sudan was ordered to marry a goat after he was caught having sex with it.
o1BK TIL there are more tigers privately owned by US citizens than in the wild worldwide
wnG1 TIL the USSR built a Skynet-like device in the 1980s that would launch a massive nuclear attack without any human intervention if it detected Moscow had been destroyed