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TIL a person with a one-hour commute has to earn 40% more money to be as satisfied with life as someone who walks to the office

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Z87Bo TIL The guy who manipulated the fashion industry to make green the “in” color in 1934 just to sell more Lucky Strike cigarettes is also the guy who made Bacon & Eggs a typical American breakfast!
Gx7g TIL on the real whaleship Essex (which was destroyed by a white sperm whale, inspiring Moby Dick) the crew resupplied at Galápagos by collecting 300 Galápagos giant tortoises which they let roam the ship at will, butchering them at sea as needed.
OGoeY TIL that while a majority of nations call the country “Finland”, the Finnish people refer to their country’s name as “Suomi” instead.
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VBW7p TIL the distributor for the movie Snowpiercer (2013) requested that the scene involving a fish be removed, but director Bong Joon-ho convinced them to keep it in by lying about his father being a fisherman and claiming the scene was dedicated to him. Bong's father was never a fisherman.