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TIL It is now legal in 21 states for employers to refuse to hire persons who smoke or use tobacco products.

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KxG TIL there is a MI6 subreddit and it’s set to private
v17GL TIL the tritone was never banned by the Catholic church; it was called "the devil in music" in one medieval music theory text because its vibrations made it technically difficult to sing. The tritone was not literally associated with the concept of evil until Black Sabbath popularized the myth.
8Ww4 TIL in 1983, 90% of US media was controlled by fifty companies; today, 90%+ is controlled by just six companies, self-identifying as “the big six.”
wLRbP TIL That Pygmies Have a Life Expectancy of Only 16-24 Years
vWnD TIL that police investigators spent years chasing the “Phantom of Heilbronn,” a female serial killer whose DNA was found at dozens of crime scenes. Investigators finally discovered that the DNA belonged to a factory worker who made the cotton swabs used to collect DNA samples.