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TIL A software developer outsourced his work to China paying someone else less than one fifth of his six-figure salary to do his job. He used the free time mostly to surf the web and watch cat videos.

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YkM7 TIL that in an effort to demonstrate people’s lack of scientific literacy, water is referred to by an unfamiliar name, “dihydrogen monoxide”, followed by a listing of real effects of this chemical, in an attempt to convince people that it should be regulated, labeled as hazardous, or banned.
j0dQ TIL Native Americans have Three Sisters Soup from their Three Sisters Agriculture from growing squash, climbing beans and corn together. The corn grows up, the climbing beans grow up the stalks, and the squash grows across the ground, covering all the roots and protecting them.
Z5aR TIL that there’s a species of jellyfish which can be immortal at the right circumstances
0w8JL TIL about Michel Lotito. Throughout his life he ate 18 bicycles, seven TV sets, two beds, 15 supermarket trolleys, a computer, a coffin (handles and all), a pair of skis, six chandeliers and an airplane (Cessna 150) piece by piece.
1aOmX TIL that the first pocket calculator [Curta (Type I) mechanical calculator] was invented by the Jewish inventor Curt Herzstark in Buchenwald concentration camp during WWII. The Nazis planned to make a present of it to Hitler as a gift after the successful end of the war.