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TIL that the nonprofit Goodwill pays its disabled workers pennies an hour while the CEO makes up to a quarter of a million dollars a year, all because of a 75 year old federal loophole.

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OoK4 TIL When Trent Reznor (Nine Inch Nails) heard the price of his album in Australia, he told fans to “steal and steal and steal some more and give it to all your friends and keep stealin’.”
yVV6a TIL about the Demon Core, a spherical 6.2 kg. mass of plutonium intented to be a third nuclear weapon against Japan. After Japan surrended, it was kept in the US where it caused the death of two Nuclear Physicists.
X09NE TIL Homo Sapiens hunted to extinction 46/57 megaherbivore species (body mass ≥1,000 kg) over the past 50 000 years
Y4er TIL that newborn ducks will take on the characteristics of the first animal they see. If the first animal they see is a human, then they will think they’re human and grow up thinking they’re human. This is called “imprinting” and it’s the natural instinct to follow the first thing they see.
a8eJo TIL that while the Emperor Titus has received almost universal praise, one Roman historian dared to point out that this was likely because his reign barely lasted two years before he suddenly died.