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R79Pl TIL that a CEO during the 2008 recession instead of laying off some employees, furloughed all them for a few weeks: “it’s better for us all to suffer a little than for some to suffer a lot.”
PY0yw TIL that the deck of cards relates to the year-4 suits for 4 seasons, 13 cards in a suit for 13 cards in a lunar cycle, and 52 cards for 52 weeks in a year.
GY9VQ TIL The last woolly mammoth died out 1000 years after the pyramids at Giza were built.