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TIL: Leonardo da Vinci is credited with inventing the résumé.

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5klP TIL about the “Cheeseburger Law.” A bill that blocks lawsuits by people because they ate too much and got fat.
BM1b TIL that when trains were introduced in the U.S, many people believed that that “women’s bodies were not designed to go at 50 miles an hour.” And that their “uteruses would fly out of [their] bodies as they were accelerated to that speed.”
jNm4Q TIL the longest held copyright in the US is a diary written by John Adam in 1753 that remains protected until 2053.
EgYoW TIL: Under the Federal Housing Act (FHA) in the US, it is possible for people with disabilities to terminate a lease if the place of living is making their condition worse and there are no other reasonable accommodations to be made.
oV1r TIL Neither Stalin nor Hitler have the title of worst genocide ever. Mao Zedong, of China, killed an estimated 63 million