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TIL You're three times more likely to die going to work or from work related accidents than by going to war, according to study.

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X0ZgR TIL a Massachusetts supermarket offered free shuttle service to customers to bring them to and from the store after it had less than 10 shopping carts left. The goal was to prevent losing any more carts from customers who were bringing their groceries home in the carts and not returning them.
XEpXk TIL that comedy actor Harold Ramis successfully dodged the Vietnam draft by taking meth immediately before his physical.
GXg5 TIL in major cities like Brooklyn and London there are entirely fake townhouses that hide subterranean chimney vents, emergency subway exits and more … all in plain sight yet camouflaged and normally unnoticed within their architectural surroundings
ndpB TIL: When an F18 is catapulted from its carrier, the pilot doesn’t actually take the controls. The acceleration is so brisk that the pilot would pitch down thinking that the nose was to high and crash into the ocean. They instead just hold handle they call the “towel rail”
gM568 TIL that some farmers in Bangladesh are now raising ducks instead of chicken because ducks can float during floods.