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TIL the US Federal government did a survey of employee satisfaction. NASA had the highest, while Dept of homeland security had the lowest.

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0ddP5 TIL there is an Aztec god of homosexuality named Xōchipilli
j6JYN TIL that almost 3% of films released in the 1960s included depictions of people sinking in quicksand, clay or mud
mxJPP TIL around 2.5 billion years ago, the Oxygen Catastrophe occurred, where the first microbes producing oxygen using photosynthesis created so much free oxygen that it wiped out most organisms on the planet because they were used to living in minimal oxygenated conditions
78oWL TIL composer Johann Christian Bach, son of JS Bach, helped extend copyright protection to musical scores under English law in 1777.
LkMwZ TIL that the brain doesn't firmly distinguish between physical pain and intense emotional pain. So the same brain networks that are activated when you're burned by hot coffee also light up when you think about an ex who dumped you.