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TIL many staplers have a setting for temporary stapling

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xVgQ5 TIL the word 'economics' comes from the Ancient Greek word 'οἰκονόμος' meaning "household management". The Ancient Babylonians developed the earliest system of economics in terms of laws on debt, legal contracts & private property.
d8D4B TIL in 1972 Canada had a contest to complete the saying "As Canadian as...". The winner was "As Canadian as possible under the circumstances."
OVWX TIL that in order to match the Walmart Heirs’ fortune, you’d need to work there for 7 Million Years.
VMZvD TIL that the common saying to identify a poisonous snake, ‘Red touches black, friend of Jack. Res touches yellow will kill a fellow”, is only applicable in North America
R7Xoa TIL clothes hangers weren’t invented until the early 1900s. Before that people had fewer clothes and used shelves and hooks.