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TIL: “that we now have 115,000 janitors, 83,000 bartenders, 323,000 restaurant servers, and 80,000 heavy-duty truck drivers with bachelor’s degrees”

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QN8JE TIL the famous Alpha-Bits cereal was discontinued in 2021.
p8Wmb TIL that a 'creole' is a stable language developed from mixing other languages together suddenly (no, not just French/English - any pair of languages), while a 'pidgin' is simplified bridging language between two languages.
JYbGQ TIL that the town of Banbury in England has its own cake, which includes rum and rosewater in its ingredients.
m1Yy TIL a woman disguised herself as a man for 18 months to write a book on gender. After the experiment, she was institutionalized for depression, and stated that she never felt so glad for being a woman.
VBA1D TIL in 2013, Italian surgeons split new residents into two laparoscopic surgery training groups. They found that the group that was ordered to play the Nintendo Wii for 1 hour a day/5days a week performed better on test surgeries than their non-gaming counterparts.