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Today I Learned that "Golden Week" in China is a 7 day holiday where workers receive 4 paid days off between 2 weekends so everyone can travel and visit distant family.

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4XP9J TIL of the Association of German National Jews, a Jewish organisation that supported Hitler and the Nazi party until it was declared illegal, dissolved and their founder imprisoned in one of the earliest concentration camps.
d8vAr TIL polar bears have learned to hunt beluga whales, something that's only been seen in the last few decades.
GAvXj TIL that Boeing's spacecraft are as good as their planes