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TIL about "job fishing" - setting up fake companies, making up fake employee profiles and hiring people for positions that don't exist. Madbird is an example of the con that tricked dozens into working for a fake design agency

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p8glp TIL that the Egyptian pyramids are not in the middle of the desert and just 200 meters away from the nearest neighborhood of Cairo. There even is a golf course near the foot of the Cheops pyramid.
R7k91 TIL Many breakfast cereals have more sugar in them than cakes, doughnuts and ice cream.
VBg44 TIL about the French astronomer (with the longest name I have ever seen) who twice travelled to India to observe the transit of Venus. He returned to a family that presumed him dead and was fighting over his estate.
a8dOZ TIL that Hebrew, Aramaic, Kurdish, Arabic, Persian, and other languages all have almost same word for "peace [be unto you]" as a standard greeting (generally with a raised hand, to show peace). (E.G. Shalom - Shelam 'alakh - Salam-alaykum - Salam)
ew94 TIL that incompetent people don’t know they’re incompetent and completely overestimate their abilities, while truly competent people are filled with doubts and often underestimate their own abilities - it’s called the Dunning Kruger effect.