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TIL Research: staying at home with kids is harder than going to work. The study included about 1500 parents, who had different jobs. The results of the study indicated that: 31% confirmed that taking care of children at home is more difficult than going to work;

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ZnnB TIL that In 2005, Tennessee began requiring drug dealers to anonymously pay taxes on any illegal substances they sold.
d5VB TIL when building the Golden Gate Bridge, the lead structural engineer insisted on the installation of a safety net even though its $130,000 cost was deemed exorbitant. Over the four years of its construction, the net saved 19 men, who named themselves the “Halfway to Hell Club.”
woLxo TIL about the Horse, Sergeant Reckless. A Horse who served with the marines in Korea. She was able to haul ammunition by herself without a handler, would seek a bunker or lay down when under fire and received two purple hearts as well as other medals for her service in the Korean war.
JJol TIL that one of the first people to be killed by a robot was Kenji Urada, a Japanese engineer working at a Kawasaki Heavy Industries plant. While working on a broken robot, he failed to turn it off completely, resulting in the robot pushing him into a grinding machine with its hydraulic arm.
oBvJo Women with sleep disorders other than sleep apnea may be more than three times as likely to experience infertility as their counterparts who don’t have trouble sleeping, a recent study suggests.