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TIL according to recent research, 87.2% of employees want to leave their current jobs in 2014, and 52.6% said that it was because they did not trust their boss.

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J1BkQ TIL The first bridge to span the Mississippi River was built in 1855 near Minneapolis. The Father Louis Hennepin Suspension Bridge charged a toll. Price for pigs and sheep was 2 cents, humans paid 3 cents, horses cost 15 cents and carriages cost 25 cents.
neNrP TIL: Killer Whale is a mistranslation of Whale-Killer - Orcas are part of the dolphin family and hunt whales
8dVX TIL During prohibition, people used to get prescriptions for ‘medical’ wine and alcohol, just like today with weed.
OomD4 TIL that the Montreal Protocol to protect the Ozone layer was the first treaty in UN history to have been accepted by all member states. If the treaty and it's actions had not been accepted, the ozone layer would've been so degraded by 2070 that just 5 minutes in sunlight would burn you.
EgE0x TIL about Reza Baluchi, a Florida man who attempted to walk across the water from his home state to New York in a homemade ‘bubble device’ - he washed ashore, in Florida, after one day