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TIL that California has a higher population than the entirety of Canada.

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Ojr1 TIL “Porn Judge” is an actual Chinese government job title. Judges such as Wang Dong are paid $32,000 per year to view porn and “have the sacred task of returning the Internet to a clean and safe state”. Most are employed within the police system.
nemoY TIL of a cat that served on the Royal Navy sloop HMS Amethyst. The cat received the PDSA's Dicking Medal after surviving injuries from a cannon shell, raising morale, and killing off a rat infestation.
9wJnQ TIL Of the great oxydation event: a single type of oxygen producing bacteria is responsible for terraforming earth from largely oxygen free to the earth we know today, giving rise to oxygen based life and causing a mass extinction of anaerobic life forms, wiping out about 80% of them
Eymp TIL of the Peter’s Principle, a theory where companies promote people into management on account of performance rather than ability, resulting in incompetent managers and inefficiency.
O1XY TIL that MK Ultra, the evil program from ‘Stranger Things’, was a real life project ran by the CIA