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TIL that in 2005, Apple, Google, Intel, Adobe, Intuit, and Pixar started a coordinated effort to push down their workers’ wages

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GAWMg TIL: Extra organs and body parts are more common than many people realise with extra nipples and teeth among the most common.
kx7 TIL that Brazil has the largest Japanese population outside Japan
RJx6 TIL ants can accidentally misinterpret the chemical trails left by other ants and start walking in circles. If too many members of the colony join in, it can kill the whole colony in what is sometimes known as the ‘Death Spiral’
Z80V4 TIL of Project Gutenberg. This Volunteer Effort has Digitized over 57,000 Books within Public Domain from throughout Human History for you to Read Online for Free
X87R TIL that the ancient Chinese symbol for “Ying and Yang” first appeared on Roman legions shields, Hundreds of years before its use in Ancient China