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b9D8a TIL the Fair Labor Standards Act was originally drafted in 1932 by Senator Hugo Black, whose proposal to require employers to adopt a thirty-hour workweek met fierce resistance (the Act later standardized the 40 hour work week)
BrMEy TIL Ancient Greek sculptures were not always white. They were often painted bright and colorful
jrWj TIL Stalin liked to play practical jokes, so he created a rule which stated that no one could enter his bedchambers, so one night he pretended to scream in agony, and his guards rushed in to protect him, but they broke Stalin’s rule, and Stalin executed them shortly afterwards.
lov75 TIL that Bhutan is the only country in the world whose nature converts more CO2 than the land itself produces.
6LMJ TIL of the Yamato 1, the first working prototype boat to use a Magnetohydrodynamic drive (MHD). Built by Mitsibishi, the ship’s drive electrifies sea water and utilizes magnetic fields to propel itself. The MHD uses no moving parts.