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TIL that the different laws and formulae in physics and mathematics weren't named after the same "Bernoulli"

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4yjo TIL women in China get 98 days of government-funded maternity leave by default, an extra 15 days for difficult childbirths, and even a shortened maternity leave up to 42 days for miscarriages. Also, if women have a late childbirth (after the age of 23) they can get an extra month of leave or more.
4k6WX TIL David Bowie used to travel around in New York carrying a Greek newspaper in the belief that people would assume he was just a Greek man who looked like David Bowie and leave him alone.
Bedx TIL Legoland donated $10,000 to Youth for Human Rights International, a Scientology group, thinking it was a human rights charity.
NBW6 TIL this is how traffic happens
57PD TIL that Axl Rose first heard the famous lines from Welcome to the Jungle (“DO YOU KNOW WHERE YOU ARE?” “YOU’RE IN THE JUNGLE, BABY!” “YOU’RE GONNA DIE!”) from an old guy in NYC when he hitchhiked there as a young man