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TIL that new Economics PhDs have a 0% unemployment rate

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kJwLm TIL Arthur Conan Doyle made friends with Harry Houdini over their shared interest in Spiritualism. They fell out when Houdini started calling BS on the whole thing.
6k8J TIL in 1775, about 70 years after the last Dodo’s death, the director of Oxford’s Natural History museum decided the museum’s stuffed Dodo was becoming too tattered and ordered it burned. A passing employee noticed and rescued a head and a limb. This is the last remainder of an actual dodo we have.
W968 TIL a baby was raffled away in the Seattle world fair in 1909 and no one knows what happened to him.
P1YNn Today I learned that there is an art/practice of reading code when you haven't been given a cypher called cryptanalysis. Cryptanalysis is decryption and cryptography is encryption
gnAb TIL In the U.S. an estimated 300,000 deaths per year may be attributable to obesity.