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TIL that Swiss voters rejected a proposal to reduce working hours in 2002

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mxQKE TIL that if a diesel engine can draw fuel from an unintended source, like excess combustible gas that is in the air, it will have a runaway and experience overspeeding at RPMs of up to 10X the engines rated capacity.
KAaJ TIL that the CIA operation to invade Cuba and take down Castro was called “Operation Castration”
4XnQw TIL that even in a worst-case scenario, Rubix cubes are no more than 20 moves from being solved
Bn4d TIL that a particular species of beetle infiltrates ant colonies by mimicking the sounds that the queen makes, and then moves around the colony at will, preying on ants, and is “treated like royalty”, according to a study.
V5J4 TIL there is an optical microscope which is assembled from a single piece of paper and a lens, costing less than $1 to build. It can magnify up to 2000 times and weighs 8 grams.