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TIL Air Traffic Controllers have jobs so stressful they're required to retire at 56

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gmX7 TIL that the entire LOTR trilogy, all Star Wars movies and all but one of the Harry Potter films fail the Bechdel Test, which tests for three requirements: 1. Two named female characters. 2. Who talk to each other. 3. About something other than a man.
Z0JQ TIL there have been more Chinese slaves than African slaves
OdDL TIL JP Morgan, Andrew Carnegie and John D Rockefeller escaped military service in CivilWar by paying $300
N7EMN TIL Frankenstein's monster calls himself "the Adam of your labors", and is referred to as "the creature", "the fiend", "the daemon", and "the wretch" at different points in the book.
kb97 TIL Mountain Dew was invented as whiskey mix