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TIL Loneliness has the same effect on mortality as smoking 15 cigarettes a day

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NWaE TIL People with typically African American names are less likely to get interviews even when the contents of the resume are the same.
16WV8 TIL Lego was flirting with bankruptcy, and the release of Bionicle, which accounted for 100% of their profits in 2003, saved them from going under.
4kvoJ TIL that Jackie Robinson so loathed the idea of playing outside of New York City that he accepted a Vice President of Personnel position at another iconic New York institution, the Chock Full o’Nuts coffee chain, instead of moving with the Dodgers to Los Angeles.
a84mL TIL that there are hundreds of different bamboo species, but only some are suitable for constructing large span structures
J18dm TIL about Aleksander Doba. At the age of 65, he kayaked from Senegal to Brazil across the Atlantic Ocean in a kayak without a sail, relying only on a paddle and his muscles. The voyage took 99 days and spanned 5394 kilometers.