Post * xOQ1 — Curious Curator

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TIL Google has found GPA’s and test scores to be “worthless as a criteria for hiring”; they have teams where 14% of their employees haven’t gone to college

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dDRQK TIL that Jane Fonda, two time Academy Award winner, activist, and former fashion model was named after the third wife (1536/7) of King Henry VIII , Jane Seymour, to whom she is distantly related on her mother's side.

8D4a TIL Scientists have compared China’s toxic air pollution to a nuclear winter

6E7kY TIL Henry Ford bought an area of Brazilian rainforest the size of Connecticut to build 'Fordlandia', the greatest rubber plantation known to man, where alcohol, women and football were banned. It produced almost no rubber, immediately descended into rioting and disease, and was abandoned

lyJV TIL of Marvin Heemeyer, a small garage owner who outfitted a large bulldozer with steel & concrete armor, video cameras and gun-ports, then took it on a rampage in Granby, Colorado.

ob1E TIL US life expectancy is now projected to be on par with Mexico by 2030. Also, The USA is the only country in the OECD without universal health coverage, and has the largest share of unmet health-care needs due to financial costs.