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TIL Role Of Entrepreneurship In Economic Development, Japan and the United States are developed because of their entrepreneurial development and Bangladesh and Nepal are underdeveloped because of lack of entrepreneurial development.

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jN6Ea TIL that Paul Elliot of the Chuckle brothers was in a motorcycle crash while on holiday. Instead of helping him, tourists who stopped at the accident shouted the Chuckle Brothers' catchphrase, "To me, to you".
1adgO TIL Shorter workweeks lead to less smoking, thinner waistlines. For blue-collar workers, shortening the workweek by 4 hours lead to a 19% to 24% decrease in smoking. For white-collar workers, cutting the same amount of hours was associated with a 1.7% to 2.1% drop in BMI.
5jep TIL that after stepping on her trainer’s head, Mary the Asian elephant (also known as ‘Murderous Mary") was hanged from a crane until death. It was later discovered that she had an infected tooth, and the unqualified trainer had prodded it, which caused her to react.
OoBmX NASA put 12 astronauts on the moon between 1969 and 1972. With the death Friday of Apollo 16’s John Young, only five of those astronauts are still alive, and they range in age from 82 to 87. No human being has been beyond low Earth orbit since the end of the Apollo program.
Drgr TIL during the Vietnam War special forces used a silenced pistol called a ‘hush puppy’ for eliminating noisy animals like guard dogs. It was also sometimes used on ducks.