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TIL that in most states in America, employers are are not federally required to provide meal breaks of rest breaks to employees

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ne9lG TIL that during the Battle of the Wabash in 1791, a force of Native Americans wiped out approximately one quarter of the entire United States Army.
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x6onD TIL that Tokyo was built on water and European visitors often compared it to Venice
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