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TIL: Kellogg pioneered the 6hrs a day, (30hr) work week and by the very measure on both the employee and employer side, it produced positive results. They kept this going all the way to 1980

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DBkJ TIL that Hugh Jackman went without water for 36 hours before filming the opening scene of “Les Mis”.
Gyk7 TIL: That the N.S.A. was caught illegally conducting mass surveillance on American citizens without court authorization, or search warrants……in 1975
71AO TIL that women in America began smoking cigarettes in public thanks to Edward Bernays, nephew of Sigmund Freud, who used his uncle’s theories and press release technique to give women this freedom. He was actually employed by a tobacco corporation which needed to sell more.
0wDE5 TIL putting the lid down in a porta-potty causes the smell to go out through the vents, which will make it not smell nearly as bad for the next person who uses it.
Y71xx TIL the game of Go is so complex that the number of legal board positions, which has been calculated to be approximately 2.1×10^170, is far greater than the number of atoms in the observable universe, which is estimated to be on the order of 10^80.