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VMjBD TIL that Henry Ford had initially lead the movement of shorter working weeks from the entrepreneurial side of things. He (counterintuitively at the time) showed that shorter working hours led to higher productivity.
rN7od TIL France's Saint-Pierre and Miquelon islands located near Newfoundland has its own airline and offers a once weekly flight between Saint Pierre and Miquelon and Paris. The runway in Saint Pierre is only 5,900 feet long, so the plane has to be weight restricted with maximum 100 passengers
rke TIL on average 1 in 4 Norwegians knew a victim affected by the 2011 terrorist attack
EggP0 TIL that during The Great Migration, Detroit's African American population increased 2000% in just 19 years (1910-1929)
Bg0dx TIL in 1969, a drunk Richard Nixon ordered a nuclear strike on North Korea for shooting down a spy plane. Henry Kissinger, his National Security Advisor, got on the phone to the Joint Chiefs and was able to convince them to stand down on that order until Nixon woke up sober the next morning