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TIL of Bullshit Jobs - it's been estimated that over half of societal work is pointless.

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aP0 TIL during the battle scenes in Braveheart, the extras who were members of the F.C.A., the Irish version of the territorial army, members of different companies took the chance to beat each other up during the filming which explains the realistic fighting
WB99 TIL that growing up, Samuel L. Jackson had a strong stutter. To try and overcome it, he would pretend to be people who didn’t have stutters. When his stuttering got particularly bad, he would counter it by instead saying his favourite word - ‘motherfucker’
E1jox TIL about Thamsanqa Jantjie who was a fake sign language interpreter who is most famous for his actions at Nelson Mandela's funeral where he "signed" incorrectly for world leaders around the world as they spoke.
4k9m6 TIL that some countries accept foreigners into their armed forces.
LkDGd TIL Women and free African Americans could vote in New Jersey from 1776 to 1807, ~140 years before women gained suffrage nationwide.