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TIL that UK postal codes are so specific, some codes can translate to individual houses

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dDVOd TIL: Microsoft tried a 4-day workweek in Japan as part of a “Work Life Choice Challenge” by shutting down offices every Friday. Productivity, measured by sales per employee, increased by almost 40% compared to the same period the previous year.
ymKl TIL of “Do It For Denmark”, a campaign whereby a Danish couple which conceives on holiday is given 3 years of baby supplies. As a result, births have increased by 14%.
6Ea88 TIL Concrete is the second most consumed material in the world after water.
oRybY TIL that the eruption of the Hunga Tonga–Hunga Haʻapai volcano was heard from 6000 miles away. For reference, that is the equivalent of hearing a sound from Moscow while being all the way in San Francisco. Before 2022, this record was held by the eruption of Krakatoa whose range was 3000 miles.
X57R TIL In 1932 two gold miners dynamited a huge section of rock from a mountainside in Wyoming & found a sealed cavern with a 7 inch tall fully developed mummy. X-Ray & Photo courtesy of Chicago Field Museum.