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TIL: the Sweden pays 80% of an employees salary if they are carrying an infectious virus so they won’t go around spreading it at work.

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4dpN TIL the Baltimore Gas and Electric Company once sent out scratch & sniff stickers to educate the public on the smell of a gas leak, only for it to backfire when the smell of the unopened envelopes were mistaken for gas leaks.
b6OQZ TIL that the lead singer of the metal band Slipknot once "blew his left testicle out" while singing high notes for warming up his voice in rehearsal.
neEgb TIL that Kentucky has 2 million more barrels of bourbon aging than total population.
Al54 TIL in 1986 an actual ‘cloud of death’ swept through an area of Cameroon, suddenly asphyxiating everything in its path, including 4 villages, 1,700 people and 3,500 livestock
BgEdD TIL it's been over 10 years since the last EF5 tornado