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TIL after Merriam-Webster added “McJob"–defined: a low-paying job that requires little skill and provides little opportunity for advancement–to their dictionary, McDonald’s asked for it to be removed. They responded with "we stand by the accuracy and appropriateness of our definition.”
DMlP
TIL that man by the name of John Leal put chlorine into a city’s water supply unbeknownst to anyone else which eventually landed him in court. His work would go on to cut the infant mortality rate in half and dropped the rate of death for typhoid nearly to zero.
XbRk
Til Douglas Williams, an administrator of Lie Detector Tests for the OK City PD, has spent the last 35 years trying to expose the fact that they don’t work and are easily defeated with a technique (explained in the vid) learned in under 2 minutes.
XELKQ
TIL that till 2013 the legal age to become a sex worker in Switzerland was 16
6kgZ
TIL that the picture of an angry cloud of sentient electricity that is commonly seen on transformers is named “Mr. Ouch”