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TIL Yemen is a tropical country

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1adgO TIL Shorter workweeks lead to less smoking, thinner waistlines. For blue-collar workers, shortening the workweek by 4 hours lead to a 19% to 24% decrease in smoking. For white-collar workers, cutting the same amount of hours was associated with a 1.7% to 2.1% drop in BMI.
ep6N4 TIL the FLIP (Floating Instrument Platform) is an ocean research vessel that can flip from horizontal to a 90° vertical floating position like a buoy. When vertical it's imperviable to wave motion and can withstand 80ft swells.
4XLgw TIL that thanks to Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust the current total population of Mauritius Kestrels is approximately 350. When they started their conservation work, there was just 4 remaining on Earth, with only two of them being a breeding pair.
voR TIL that Sylvia Plath’s husband burned her last journal upon her death, but agreed that her unpublished papers and journals may be released in 2013.
4kpPa TIL there is pharmaceutical treatment for alcoholism