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TIL a woman donated a kidney to her boss, who then fired her when she took too long to recover from the operation.

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6PDl TIL in America, a recurring joke in Futurama is that French is a dead language by the 31st century; in the French dub, however, German is the dead language.
wXZo TIL That NASA recorded the radio signature of Earth and converted it to an audible “Earthsong”
ZpvG TIL Low social interaction is as harmful as 15 cigarettes a day, being an alcoholic, or being obese
5wNB TIL The singer-songwriter Alice Cooper pays yearly royalties to the members of the band, Alice Cooper, for the right to use the name commercially as it was originally the copyrighted band name before he adopted it as his own.
wLa0M TIL the names Brendan (Irish) and Brenda (Norse) have totally different origins and just happen to be spelled similarly and gendered