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TIL The USA is one of the only countries in the world that has no paid benefits for maternity leave.

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5dMP TIL The first film to use the word “vagina” is Walt Disney’s “The Story of Menstruation”
yVj7a TIL the oldest hotel in the world is Nishiyama Onsen Keiunkan in Japan. It was founded in 705 AD.
JlRB TIL when Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails first heard Johnny Cash’s cover of their song “Hurt”, he said “Wow, that song isn’t mine anymore.”
oBnlW TIL a drifter named Theodore Coneys, AKA the Denver Spider Man, broke into a man’s house and hid in the tiny attic, ended up murdering the man, then continued to hide in the attic for months during the murder investigation, while the murdered man’s wife still lived in the house.
Oo4RX TIL that President Ronald Reagan wrote in his diary that the 1983 film The Day After "left me greatly depressed" and that it changed his mind on the policy on nuclear war. Reagan's memoirs drew a direct line from the film to his signing of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty in 1987.