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rRANo TIL that employers in 31 of 50 United States aren't required to allow their employees to take breaks.
R85Q TIL That Russia Has Approved Construction of an Estimated $66B Tunnel Across the Bering Strait Starting Sometime After 2030, Making a Railway from New York to London a Possibility During This Century
R55Xa TIL that the FCC prohibits replications of the Emergency Alert System tone. Broadcasters misusing it can be sanctioned and fined. In 2013, the trailer for Olympus Has Fallen had EAS tones and cable providers were fined $1.9 million dollars.
KMb6 TIL J. R.R. Tolkien was an Anarchist.
b9r6N TIL when Japanese ultranationalists and militaries attempted a coup in 1932 they intended to also kill Charlie Chaplin