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TIL roughly half of the Dutch workforce works part-time.

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R50oj TIL the Pyramid Texts are the oldest Ancient Egyptian religious texts, written in Old Egyptian and carved onto the subterranean walls of pyramids at Saqqara. The oldest texts have been dated to c. 2400-2300 BC.
X0ONP TIL France has 12 time zones. This is more than any other country.
brYN TIL that in order to study a cow’s digestion, research cows are fitted with a port in their side big enough to see and reach into so that scientists can gather the contents inside without hurting the cow. The cow lives a normal life and can actually live longer than a regular cow.
NXZv6 TIL that romance novels are the most popular literature genre. By 1991 46% of all US mass-market paperbacks were romance. Half of romance publisher Harlequin's customers purchased 30 novels a month. 25% of all Americans read a romance novel in 2008.
WkgYd TIL the word "mortgage" comes from an old French word used in Britain during the Middle Ages meaning "death pledge"