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TIL the EU abolished Daylight Saving Time, leaving the decisions up to national governments starting in 2021.

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DQxkY TIL that all women are born with different amounts of eggs (oocytes) due to genetics, and some women can have as many as 50x more eggs than another woman!
nkkG TIL Instead of donating money to the New York Food Bank, Toyota offered kaizen, a Japanese word meaning “continuous improvement”. Toyota sent its engineers to the soup kitchen and reduced wait time from 90 to 18 minutes.
nWGNB TIL The Beatles' 1965 film Help! was dedicated to Elias Howe who invented the sewing machine in 1846.
Z8xQv TIL of Duexis, a brand name medication consisting of ibuprofen 800 (4 advils) and famotidine 26.6 (1 and 1/3 pepcid) per capsule. A 90 count bottle costs over $3000, whereas 360 advils and 120 pepcid cost around $25.
YpBbv TIL that Nelson Mandelas wife, Winnie Mandela, publicly endorsed the act of "necklacing" apartheid sympathizers, where a tire soaked in gasoline is affixed around the victims chest and set on fire as a form of cruel execution