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

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9gwX TIL After making an emergency landing in China in 2001, the crew of a US Spy Plane were asked by their Chinese captors to recite the lyrics to “Hotel California” to prove their nationality.
8axNX TIL that when the CEO of discount supermarket chain ALDI was kidnapped, he haggled about his ransom money and claimed the sum as a tax-deductable business expense in court after his release
Ypr5A TIL that Twenty or more US Airmen were in Hiroshima as POWs when the Atom Bomb fell. SSG Ralph J. Neal and another Airman, Norman Brissette, survived the initial blast by jumping into a cesspool, only to die thirteen days later from radiation poisoning.
R7M67 TIL SpongeBob SquarePants creator Stephen Hillenburg majored in marine sciences at Humboldt State University and minored in art. He loved both subjects but his real passion was art, he chose marine science because he thought it would be hard to make a living doing art alone.
YpxaP TIL if 75% of your liver were removed and 25% left, that 25% could regenerate a full size liver in 8 to 15 days? Your new liver would reorganize itself over the course of a few months but it would be functional as it regenerates.