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TIL "emotional labor" is the process of managing feelings and expressions to fulfill the emotional requirements of a job, including regulating their personas during interactions, suppression of expressions of felt emotions and expression of emotions that aren't actually felt

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4kL7o TIL that a kangaroo rat can survive without ever drinking water. It extracts water from it's diet of seeds.
OoGPg TIL: On Dec. 25th, 1914, the first year of WW1 - Germans v British - Both sides crawled out of their trenches and met half way to play an innocent Christmas game of football/soccer as a display of truce. Germans beat the British 3-2 before resuming fighting the next day.
XoEP TIL in Canada anal sex is illegal if more than 2 parties are present and is punishable by up to 10 years in jail.
5VaP TIL that in 1893 H.H.Holmes (one of the first documented American serial killers) built a maze like hotel with full of traps where he murdered his victims
OoOae TIL that a USSR physicist published his equations for solving reflected electromagnetic waves from surfaces, as the Soviet authorities considered them insignificant for military purposes. His work was found by Lockheed in the 1970s, leading to a breakthrough in developing their stealth plane F-117.