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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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1ad7W TIL male dolphins form alliances and aggressively pursue females to mate. The females frequently "bolted", but only managed to escape 1/4 attempts. Male dolphins sometimes also commit infanticide so that their mothers will come back into estrus. Dolphins also occasionally practice incest.
R7bgl TIL a coconut crab can grow up to 1m in length, actually cracks open coconuts with its claws, and can't swim.
neEwd TIL the Ancient Egyptian historian Manetho claimed that Moses was an Egyptian priest named Osarseph who led a colony of leper slaves and invited barbarians to destroy Egypt. After 13 years, the pharaoh Amenhotep and his son Ramses drive them out of Egypt. Osarseph then changes his name to Moses.
bmNQ TIL In 1997 Brittish scientist wanted to create headless humans for organ transplants
glgL TIL that the fake phone number from “Bruce Almighty”, was actually called by many people who asked “are you God?”. One man with the number was a priest, who would reply “No, but I can take a message”.