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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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xa0b TIL that half of the uranium used in US power plants comes from recycled Russian nuclear weapons under an agreement that actually runs out this year.
nWjKr TIL about a Chinese man named Zhao C (赵Ｃ), who was forced to change his name when he was 22 years old because it included a Latin character, which is not "part of the national standard for "numbers and symbols" of the People's Republic of China"
166Yd TIL The Python programming language was named after Monty Python, not a snake.
rR54d TIL Rich Girl by Hall and Oates was actually about a guy. Daryl Hall's girlfriend at the time had an ex who was the heir to a fast food chain fortune. Hall thought the guy was spoiled and a "burn out". But decided Rich Girl sounded better than Rich Guy.
mBXY TIL Blackbeard was actually only in his 30s when he was doing the pirate stuff (IE not an old man like in Pirates of the Caribbean)?