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TIL that the USA has no mandatory paid holiday or vacation leave for employees

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OoML6 TIL 'Amor fati' describes an attitude in which one sees everything that happens in one's life, including suffering and loss, as good or, at the very least, necessary, in that they are among the facts of one's life and existence, so they are always necessarily there whether one likes them or not.
b96Rp TIL Dogs can get PTSD and it affects 5-10% of working military dogs
j6PjM TIL there is a guy who walks around the city of Melbourne with a giant carrot. He is called Carrot Man.
M7bK8 TIL that the reason why the Portuguese language calls the days of the week "feiras" is because they didn't want the classical names that were related to pagan gods, "feira" means "day of the week after Sunday"
xVk7D TIL there is a Japanese inn that opened in 718, that has been managed by 46 generations of the Houshi family. The inn has been operating for 1,300 years.