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TIL tipping was abolished in Switzerland in 1974 after a dispute over taxes on tips. Service is now included in prices, with higher wages replacing tips.

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v14M7 TIL that under apartheid the Taiwanese, Koreans, and Japanese were classified as "honorary whites" while the Chinese were classified as "colored"
ZJE4 TIL that a mongrel Lampo hitch-hiked trains and was taking longer and longer train trips from which he always returned.
WkRo4 Today I learned that a pomeranian pup set the record for longest yawn that lasted 23 minutes and 8 seconds.
oBD77 TIL that in fact you can film the speed of light!
M7QlA TIL that the popular belief in the United States that Daylight Savings Time was enacted FOR the benefit of farmers is wrong; farmers were actually some of the strongest opponents of its implementation.