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TIL Puffins Spend Almost All Their Time at Sea in the Winter

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OPxe TIL 98% of women in Somalia have experienced forced gential mutilation
P1WVJ TIL a survey of 5,188 US workers found that 46% said they take less paid time off work than is offered to them.
groX9 TIL the average minor spends about 7 hours per week with their father, but about 15 hours a week on video games.
wLDYW TIL Spider-Man's trademark web-swinging technique in "The Amazing Spider-Man" was done using practical effects instead of the cgi used in the previous films. They built a giant rig that allowed a stuntman to swing from a thin cable attached to a winch over and through the real streets of NYC.
9wVRD TIL that Dave Brandt, the face behind the "It ain't much, but it's honest work" meme, died last May in an auto collision. His life was really about honest work.