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TIL American workers burnout faster than workers in any other country

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Zp5Oo TIL Ramón Gerard Antonio Estévez took the stage name Martin Sheen in part as tribute to Fulton Sheen, a Catholic Bishop he admired.
QJGZp TIL Aeschylus, a Greek playwright, died in 455 BC after an eagle dropped a tortoise on his head, mistaking his head for a rock (some eagles kill tortoises this way, breaking them open). Aeschylus was spending most of his time outside to avoid a prophecy that he would die from a falling object.
VMR6B TIL : In France asking the race of a person is forbidden in most contexts (census, employment, university, ...) and statistics based on race are forbidden.
X9Yk TIL: Christian Bale went to his lunch meeting with ‘American Psycho’ writer Bret Easton Ellis as Patrick Bateman. Ellis became so uncomfortable with it that he had to ask Bale to stop the act.
7VoO TIL that visitors to the Lascaux caves in France do not see the genuine 17,000 year old art, but a replica created to help protect the originals.