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TIL 57.5% of College Graduates Don't Work in Their Field of Study

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oBd0E TIL Queen Elizabeth II, the longest serving British monarch, met Tu’i Malila the tortoise, the world’s oldest tortoise on record who lived to be 189.
GY5jG TIL in 1989 federal agents seized almost 20 tons of cocaine--worth up to $6 billion from a single warehouse
lLdK TIL when composing the song “‘39”, Queen guitarist Brian May jokingly asked bassist John Deacon to play the double bass on the recording. Deacon didn’t got the joke and actually learned the instrument. In two days.
X0M8R TIL that Mount Disappointment in Australia was so named because when they discovered it in 1824, they found there were too many trees to see the bay. Also, one of the discoverers suffered incredible pain in his groin while there which necessitated a five-day rest for their party.
rl4y TIL that big band composer/musician Glenn Miller went missing in action in 1944 and no trace of him has ever been found