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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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EbDo TIL The Malaysian pen-tailed tree shrew subsists on a diet roughly equivalent to 100% beer, drinking the fermented nectar of the flower buds of the bertam plant. This nectar can reach up to 3.8% alcohol content. Despite this, they don’t appear to get drunk.
jNPQQ TIL "Finding Nemo" is the second film to be dubbed in Navajo, following the success of Navajo "Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope". It was a joint effort between the Navajo Nation Museum and The Walt Disney Studios for more than a year
0w6ej TIL: washing your hands with hand sanitizer in hospitals is contributing to the development of deadly superbugs (bacteria)
N74jQ TIL The "Lazy Dog" bomb, developed during world war 2, was a 2 inch steel kinetic projectile that was dropped by the thousands at 3,000 ft and could penetrate up to 9 inches of solid concrete with no explosive.
wLOX8 TIL that Frank Borman, the astronaut that led the first flight around the moon, turned down the chance to actually go on a mission to land on the moon, because in his words, "To me, it wasn't worth it. It wasn't worth assuming the risks because I wasn't inclined to go pick up rocks."