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TIL almost all workers in the UK are legally entitled to 5.6 weeks paid holiday per year.

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gMXA7 TIL that the phrase “don’t wear white after Labor Day.” Was just one of dozens of rules set buy high society women defining “old money” from “new money” as more and more people became millionaires after the civil war in the late 1800’s.
Oo4RX TIL that President Ronald Reagan wrote in his diary that the 1983 film The Day After "left me greatly depressed" and that it changed his mind on the policy on nuclear war. Reagan's memoirs drew a direct line from the film to his signing of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty in 1987.
awY6A TIL My belief that the reason there is no channel 1 on TV sets was because channel 1 was reserved for the US military is WRONG! Experimental TV stations on channel 1 frequencies experienced too much radio interference. So the FCC cut channel 1 leaving channels 2 thru 12 on VHF.
QJoeE TIL Hippocrates believed that the natural processes of the body shouldn't be intervened. This philosophy carried into the late 1800s to the extent that development of pus was seen as positive indicator of healing because it was routinely found in all kinds of wounds. It was called "laudable pus".
KO94w TIL about Himeji Castle located in Himeji, Japan. The castle is the largest and best-preserved samurai fortification in the country and is both an official National Treasure of Japan and a UNESCO World Heritage Site.