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TIL that in germany you are not allowed to skip your break if you are working more than 6 hours a day.

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4kgpX TIL: The creator of Magic: The Gathering, is President Andrew Garfield's great great grandson and his grand uncle invented the paperclip. He went to school and got a PhD in mathematics and started designing MTG as a grad student.
M7bpW TIL The small tropical city of Sanya on Hainan Island, now a global tourism destination, was annexed by Emperor Qin in 214 BCE and was considered inaccessible, mysterious in ancient China. Mainly inhabited by ethnic Li and Miao, barriers and poor transportation prevented Han people from visiting it
XEvKR TIL of Abuwtiyuw, one of the oldest known named animals
JYZXB TIL about the door-in-the-face. An attempt is made to convince the respondent to comply by making a large request that the respondent will most likely turn down. The respondent is then more likely to agree to a second, more reasonable request, than if that same request is made in isolation.
OoLY7 TIL officials in New York City have killed over 70,000 birds to date since the US Airways Flight 1549 accident (also known as the "Miracle on the Hudson"), in order to prevent similar accidents