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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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BryZL TIL that Ben Stiller came up with the idea for "Tropic Thunder" while working on the set of Steven Spielberg's WW2 drama "Empire of the Sun" and seeing actors come back from "fake" Army boot camp and treating it like a real war experience.
rREEd TIL there is a mathematical "game" called the homicidal chauffer problem, in which a driver in a fast but slow-turning car tries to run over a slower pedestrian who has more freedom of motion. It is used to improve missile guidance systems.
1kEX TIL Pope Paul VI spent the night of July 20,21 1969 watching the moon through a telescope of the Vatican Observatory during the first moon landing. Afterward, he praised the achievement by writing at length about the event
9BMM TIL in the Ecuadorian Rain Forest trees have been discovered that can “walk” up to 20 meters in a year
9YjoB TIL about The Battle of the Frogs. The loud croaking of thousands of fighting bullfrogs was heard in a pond in Windham, CT, USA. The sound caused citizens to panic and assume that Windham was under attack, some of them mistaking the croaks for shouted words, the beating of drums, or Armageddon.