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TIL In Sweden, you can take sick leave during your vacation if you are ill.

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nWkL7 TIL about the UNESCO Memory of the World Programme, which seeks to preserve the "documentary heritage" of humanity. Included are archives for: cuneiform tablets, the Battle of the Somme, records of smallpox eradication, Beethoven's Ninth, and so much more.
W7ynA TIL that Peter Jackson has a hobbit hole under his house, and Danny DeVito goes to visit him on a regular basis.
YpgK7 TIL: Aleksandr Karelin, the greatest Greco-Roman wrestler of all time, who won 3 Olympic golds, 12 European Championships and 9 World Championships. His PhD was devoted to countermeasures against suplex throws. He suffered 2 losses, one of which was against a Wyomingite farmer who wrestled cows.
JGV1 Til that the east and west US use different sized sticks of butter
Xe0E TIL lobsters were once considered “poverty food” and served to prisoners and servants