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TIL the HR department isn’t there to help you as an employee, but to protect the company against any liability you may pose.

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woE5o TIL that the Swiss Air Force did not respond to the hijacking of EA Flight 702 because it was outside of office hours 08:00-12:00 - French and Italian aircraft escorted it to Geneva airport
JYPVl TIL in 1967, there was a classroom experiment created to explain how the German people could accept the actions of the Nazis and also demonstrate the appeal of fascism. What began with only a few students spiraled out of control with hundreds of people believing it to be a real social movement.
9YeDG TIL of a £4m art heist Manchester in 2003 , including a Van Gogh painting. It is believed the culprit tipped off the police and revealed the location of the stolen artwork. Stating that his intentions were not to steal , but to highlight woeful security.
omKK TIL - gorillas can learn more than 1000 words and may be smarter than 15% to 20% of humans based on standardized IQ tests
LQkLP TIL people in the Middle Ages believed the equator to be impassably hot. Therefore, either Jesus would’ve have to appear separately to the Southern Hemisphere or its natives would be damned to Hell under the beliefs of the time.