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TIL of an experiment on the NY subway where seated passengers were asked “Excuse me, may I please have your seat?” 56% of them moved

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9J4X TIL New York launched an “America Works” style workfare program in 1995 known as the Work Experience Program (WEP). The result was that thousands of students were forced out of school, and thousands of union workers were replaced by WEP workers doing the same jobs for a fraction of the pay.
awxR9 TIL Snakes have infrared vision, allowing them to see prey in the dark.
PY8Mw TIL that a horse actually has up to 15 horse powers.
ANvg TIL that nearly every top McDonald’s monopoly prize from 1995-2000 was fraudulently won by a group of insiders
woLmW TIL about Fordlândia, a very large plot of land that Henry Ford purchased in Brazil. He developed and utilized this land in order to try and meet the need for his own rubber production for his car tires. This project would eventually fail and was abandoned in 1934.