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TIL:Daylight Savings costs the U.S. an estimated $434 million in lost productivity and decreased health.

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kJ4aW TIL: According to Guinness World Records, PATH, a mostly underground pedestrian walkway network in downtown Toronto, is the largest underground shopping complex in the world. PATH spans more than 30 kilometres of restaurants, shopping, services and entertainment.
x6VKD TIL: Rolled Gold is known as "Gold-Filled" in the USA which is exactly the opposite of the filled gold that it actually is.
x6j5k TIL Neil Armstrong became a professor after he walked on the moon, teaching aerospace engineering at the University of Cincinnati.
oBPoK [TIL] "Slow movement culture" where the group embraces "Slow food" instead of "fast food", "Slow reading" instead of "fast reading" etc. The whole idea is to slow down and notice the nuances and appreciate the details.
4kOpo TIL That the most produced of any Volkswagen part is the Volkswagen Currywurst, with over 6.8 million made in 2018 alone