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TIL American workers burnout faster than workers in any other country

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wLWZY TIL that dogs shed in the fall; the older hair is pushed out so that their new winter-resistant undercoat can grow in, and the shedding process is progressive - so the dog hair on my clothes and on my floor and in my mouth is only a moderate amount compared with what's to come.
p8pMG TIL the four-term Democratic governor of Alabama, George Wallace, famous for his hard-line segregationist views and his four presidential campaigns, renounced his past racial views and ran for his final term in 1982, winning with over 90% of the Black vote.
rRBkx TIL A 14-year-old boy was gang-raped by inmates during a judge-ordered visit to a prison for the Scared Straight program in the 1970s.
GA5m4 TIL the biggest lottery scam in US history was done by Eddie Tipton, head of the Multi-State Lottery Association's IT security. He felt underappeciated & overworked, so he wrote code that narrowed his odds from 5 million to 1 to 200 to 1. He won drawings in five states worth $24m before his arrest.
D1E4r TIL In the 1960's, a gun fired bullets that had tiny little rockets inside to give no recoil and high stability. Today, they cost around $100 per round.