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TIL that Texas has an embassy in Washington DC.

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XEpyR TIL: You receive a higher dose of radiation living next to a coal plant than you do a nuclear plant.
JYVQm TIL there is a group of scam baiters who turn the tables on the people who send out scam emails. In one case, they convinced a Nigerian scammer to travel 700 miles to Arabic-speaking Chad even though he didn't speak the language and didn't have enough money to make his way back home.
AD7Nw TIL of Project 100000, a recruitment effort during Vietnam that brought in mentally and physically unfit people for service to fill the ranks. Many brought in had a 5th grade level education and were considered mentally challenged.
v16Rx TIL Mount Everest is a ticking poop time bomb:there are literally tons of human poop on Mount Everest, despite Sherpas bringing down 26 500 pounds of poop every season
16MZ8 TIL "emotional labor" is the process of managing feelings and expressions to fulfill the emotional requirements of a job, including regulating their personas during interactions, suppression of expressions of felt emotions and expression of emotions that aren't actually felt