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TIL nearly 45% of recent college graduates are working in jobs which did not require a college degree

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1ajRW TIL that it was possible to buy your way out of the Civil War draft, on both the Union and Confederate sides, if you had enough money to pay someone else to sign up in your place.
gVB9 TIL Ben and Jerry’s have an actual cemetery for discontinued flavors of ice cream!
4g5R TIL In the early nineties, actor Ving Rhames (aka Marcellus Wallace) met a homeless man who turned out to be his older brother who had been lost to his family since Vietnam
oB7LY TIL: Mormons didn't just rebuild homes for victims of Typhoon Haiyan, They taught people how to build their own houses, then gave them trade certificates in construction that helped them qualify for better jobs.
awDEZ TIL giraffes have a natural blood pressure of about 280/180, and have a complex series of mechanisms in their circulatory system to prevent brain hemorrhage as their heads rapidly change elevation, such as when standing up from taking a drink.