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TIL almost 70% of employed Saudi citizens work for the government, and many of those work for less than 1 hour per day.

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jNnJM TIL of the sunk cost fallacy. It is the general tendency for people to continue an endeavor, or continue consuming or pursuing an option, if they’ve invested time or money or some resource in it, which becomes a fallacy if it’s pushing you to do things that are making you unhappy or worse off.
4k8B5 TIL that so-called "post nut clarity" is a real thing that doctors/scientists refer to as Postcoital Dysphoria
6E4eW TIL that in 1948 a high school student by the name of Randy Gardner stayed awake for 264.4 hours for a science fair project. He was monitored by a Stanford sleep researcher and contributed notably to the science community. Following he slept for 14 hours and suffered no observable health issues.
awdjZ TIL Bill Murray has starred in 9 out of 10 Wes Anderson movies, and has been in every one since the 1998 Rushmore.
YpAB7 TIL that ONLY Air Force planes are called Air Force One when carrying the president. "Marine One" and "Navy One" are used for presidential flights on aircraft by those branches, and there has been one "Executive One" flight on a civilian aircraft.