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TIL Netlfix offers unlimited vacation time for employees so long as their work gets done.

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mggE TIL the famous Inca site of Machu Picchu was constructed less than 50 years before Christopher Columbus sailed to the New World
kpG5 TIL when the Swedish secret police tried to quietly pressure an ISP to install its spying apparatus, the ISP secretly recorded the conversation and released it to the media instead of complying.
J01j TIL that in 1981, a landlord was sued for evicting a tenant who had spilled a tin of the noxious-smelling fish surstromming in the property. Upon being told he didn’t have a case to do so, the landlord simply opened a tin of surstromming in the courtroom. The judge quickly changed his mind.
Me9Z0 TIL that Cormac McCarthy has typed every one of his novels on a mechanical typewriter (about 5 million words) and that at auction it was expected to sell for $15,000, it went for $254,000.
69ol8 TIL about the Uncensored Library in Minecraft, created by Reporters Without Borders to combat censorship. This virtual library gives users access to banned or censored articles and information from around the world, featuring works from journalists who have been censored in their home countries.