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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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ADdWo TIL All the gold ever mined would make a cube 71 ft on each side (21.7 m)
XjQ TIL One cannot maintain an erection in space.
Yp7Wr TIL that adding salt on pineapples makes it sweeter. The salt reacts with the acids of the fruit, thus converting into a neutral compound and losing the sour taste. Because of this, the pineapple then becomes sweeter.
4GDN TIL that until the early 20th century, young boys wore dresses or gowns until around the age of 8, when they reached the age of breeching, an important rite of passage in the lives of small boys when they wore breeches or trousers for the first time.
N7RRb TIL about the tragic story of the The Flying Dutchman. A C-47 airplane, nicknamed The Flying Dutchman, was hit by a strong down draft of wind in New Guinea causing it to crash. The occupants who had survived carved daily entries on the door for those who would eventually find them.