TIL a survey of 1,900 workers found that: 70% of them lied on their resumes, 76% lied on their cover letters, and 80% lied during the job interview.
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Submitted March 08, 2024 at 04:50PM by tyrion2024
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Fast Company
Who lies on resumes more often? High earners and workers with advanced degrees, it turns out
It's not just job candidates. Even hiring managers are lying these days.
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TIL that in the late 1800s, many farmers in the American midwest believed that strong vibrations in the air helped rainclouds form, akin to shaking the branches of a wet tree. This led many to set off dynamite explosives at high altitudes in order to bring rain for their crops.
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Smithsonian Magazine
When the U.S. Government Tried to Make It Rain by Exploding Dynamite in the Sky
Inspired by weather patterns during the Civil War, the rainmakers of the 1890s headed to west Texas to test their theory
TIL that Paul Rudd and Jeffrey Dean Morgan have co-owned Samuel's Sweet Shop in Rhinebeck, New York since 2014. They rescued the store from closure after the previous owner, a friend of theirs, passed away.
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Paul Rudd
American actor
TIL In the mid 1800's, Williams Clark, a former US Senator who is attributed with starting what became Las Vegas as we know it, once owned a mining company, and sold eggs for $3 per dozen to miners, whose daily salary was $4.
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William Andrews Clark (1839-1925) | American Experience | PBS
William Andrews Clark was a politician and entrepeneur who developed a mining empire and left behind a multi million dollar legacy.
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TIL the deepest humans have ever drilled into the earth is 12,262 meters
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Kola Superdeep Borehole
result of a scientific drilling project of the Soviet Union on the Kola Peninsula
TIL: There is a scientific study involving 2537 men and 3185 women which tested correlation between number of partners and most chronic illnesses. Cancer was the only one statistically significant. 10+ partners means you are more likely to get cancer and had having 0-1 has the least.
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BMJ Sexual & Reproductive Health
The relationship between chronic diseases and number of sexual partners: an exploratory analysis
Background We investigated sex-specific associations between lifetime number of sexual partners and several health outcomes in a large sample of older adults in England.
Methods We used cross-sectional data from 2537 men and 3185 women aged ≥50 years participating…
Methods We used cross-sectional data from 2537 men and 3185 women aged ≥50 years participating…
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TIL that the first physician and scientist to cure cancer in humans, Min Chiu Li, was fired from the National Cancer Institute for how he treated his cancer patients. It was not until many years later that the Institute recognized Li’s scientific achievements.
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Min Chiu Li
Chinese-American cancer researcher
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TIL Walt Disney fired the creator of Goofy for trying to start a union.
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NPR
'The Disney Revolt' details animators' 1941 strike against Disney
A new book by Jake Friedman documents a bitter strike in 1941 by Disney animators who wanted to unionize. The book is noscriptd, The Disney Revolt: The Great Labor War of Animation's Golden Age.
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TIL: the “old Duke rate”; a legal loophole that allows electric consumers in South Carolina pay the same rate for electricity that they have been since 1966
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Justia Law
Duke Power Co. v. SC Public Service Comm.
Duke Power Co. v. SC Public Service Comm. - 284 S.C. 81, 326 S.E.2d 395
TIL of the Skoptsy, a 17th century russian christian sect who cut off their sexual organs "to perfect the individual by eradicating original sin"
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Skoptsy
Russian Christian movement which practiced castration and mastectomy
TIL about St. Simeon the Stylite, a Byzantine monk who lived atop a 60-foot pillar for 37 years in devotion to God.
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Deseret News
Daniel Peterson: Why St. Simeon the Stylite decided to live on top of a 60-foot column
St. Simeon, a monk who lived in ancient Syria, wanted time to meditate and pray, but was pursued but those interested in his hermit lifestyle and others seeking advice or help supplicating God
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TIL of Margaret Clitherow. She was tortured to death via crushing, her own door being used, and refused to enter a plea agreement. She was pregnant at the time and has since been venerated as a Saint
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Margaret Clitherow
English martyr and saint of Roman Catholic Church (1555-1586)
TIL that Gov George Wallace of Alabama’s wife had cancer, but she didn’t know because he didn’t tell her. Doctors back then only told the husband.
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Lurleen Wallace
American politician (1926-1968)
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TIL that Michael Jackson created an entire soundtrack for the 2005 adaptation of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, but declined to release it when he was refused the part of Willy Wonka
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (film)
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is a 2005 musical fantasy film directed by Tim Burton and written by John August, based on the 1964 British novel of the same name by Roald Dahl. The film stars Johnny Depp as Willy Wonka and Freddie Highmore as Charlie Bucket…
TIL that the longest prison sentence ever served was 71 years
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Charles Foussard
Australian murderer
TIL a 2016 study found mushrooms to be the safest recreational drug. Of the more than 12,000 people in the study who reported taking mushrooms, only 0.2% needed emergency medical treatment.
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the Guardian
Study finds mushrooms are the safest recreational drug
People taking mushrooms in 2016 needed medical treatment less than for MDMA, LSD and cocaine, while one of the riskiest drugs was synthetic cannabis
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TIL about peona cullei.“Punishment of the Sack” This was a ancient Roman execution, commonly used for patricide, where a man is sewn up in a leather sackcloth, with a live dog, monkey, viper, and rooster, and then tossed into a body of water.
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IMPERIUM ROMANUM
Poena cullei – not only symbolism
The purpose of this text is to introduce a little symbolism and also to take a closer look at one of the most terrifying punishments of the Roman judiciary. Poena cullei, or the so-called...
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TIL in 2018 a helicopter for sightseers of NYC crashed into the East River. All 5 passengers drowned because they were trapped by their supplemental harnesses, but the pilot escaped
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2018 New York City helicopter crash
helicopter crash
TIL Lucy Hester Stanhope (1776-1839), a British adventurer and archaeologist, discovered a 7-foot tall Greco-Roman statue which she then smashed into pieces and tossed into the Mediterranean because she wanted to prove to the Ottoman government that she had no interest in stealing their antiquities.
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Lady Hester Stanhope
noblewoman; British aristocrat, antiquarian and archaeologist (1776–1839)
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TIL that for centuries, British people considered cucumbers too vile to be eaten by humans. But their opinion changed when Queen Victoria’s family started eating them. Cucumbers became really popular. A British engineer even went as far as inventing a glass tube which straightened curvy cucumbers.
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Atlas Obscura
How England Got Its Curvy Cucumbers Straightened Out
The cucumber straightener was a marvel of British horticulture.
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TIL A dive watch bezel only turns counterclockwise as a life saving measure. If it is accidentally bumped it will subtract time from the dive and prompt the diver to surface early rather than stay under for too long.
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Bremont Watch Company (US)
Why do dive watches have rotating bezels?
Humans have always longed to explore air, land, and sea. The oceans have an extra special and enigmatic allure. Covering 71 percent of the Earth, it remains one of the most inhospitable environments to immerse ourselves in.