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TIL that 37% of Brits think they have a job that is "utterly useless" and the rate is similar in other countries.

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xV7Z1 TIL only 400 out of the 7000 diseases classified as “rare” have an effective treatment. This fact is recognized during Rare Disease Day, which is held every year on the last day of February. This day also holds an extra special meaning on February 29 – the rarest day of the year.
rNVm0 TIL that so many ships were abandoned by prospectors during the 1849 Gold Rush in San Francisco's Yerba Buena Cove that it was called a "forest of masts." Some ships became bars, hotels, and brothels—where much of the gold was spent. Today, the ships lie beneath 50-story buildings.
wabY TIL that you legally can’t die in the Palace of Westminster if you’re a commoner. Your death is recorded as having taken place at St Thomas’s Hospital.
E10Ed TIL Richard Nixon ordered a nuclear attack on North Korea while drunk
Qay6 TIL that the “natural flavoring” in some vanilla, strawberry, and raspberry flavored foods is a substance derived from the scent sacs of a beavers butthole.