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TIL that Canadians are required to answer a skill-testing math question to win contest prizes!

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QNk1k TIL that Dutch national holidays do not guaranty a day off work.
N74JP TIL a dispatcher who told a woman to deal with a shot and dying boy herself later received a 25,000$ settlement after suing for being fired as a dispatcher.
6EvN7 TIL that in 1978, Reinhold Messner reached the summit of Mt Everest without using supplementary oxygen, a task which had previously been considered impossible. Two years later, he did it again by himself, completing the first solo ascent of the mountain
XpGD TIL that the 1993 film Cool Runnings was released in the Czech Republic and Slovakia under a title which translates as “Coconuts on Snow”.
5YDDk TIL the first major labor strike in the US was organized by 102 women at a textile mill in Rhode Island.