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TIL courts have ruled that it’s legal for police departments to discriminate against smart people when hiring

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ne7Yd TIL Harrison Ford made $10,000 for A New Hope and $20,000,000 for The Force Awakens
pYdgp TIL about the hoax around’Drop Bears’. It’s a myth primarily concerned with tricking gullible tourists into thinking koala-like creatures will drop down randomly and attack from trees
m1PjR TIL Electron microscopes produce only black and white images. Colour doesn’t exist at that scale, because the things it images are smaller than the wavelength of visible light but false colour as often used
b077 TIL in June 1984 the prime minister of New Zealand, Robert Muldoon, drunkenly announced on national television that a snap election was to be held in a month’s time. With 93.7% of voters turning out for the election, he lost. The occasion is sometimes remembered as the ‘Schnapps election’.
R5P11 TIL about Qanats, which is a water supply system that was developed in ancient Iran for the purpose of transporting usable water to the surface from an aquifer or a well through an underground aqueduct. Proving crucial to water supply in areas with hot and dry climates.