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TIL that bringing pets to work can decrease the risk of having a burnout and that 86% of a company's employees which tested this premise experienced a decrease in overall stress.

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QJ8xd TIL in the Halloween film "Hocus Pocus," Billy Bucherson coughed up real life moths. He was fitted with a mouth piece, which consisted of a latex pouch that held the dirt and moths.
YpgPB TIL Hitler and the Nazis were often high on methamphetamine, and this is credited for their success in the 1940 invasion of France - because they didn't have to rest. Hitler himself was also regularly injected with other hormones and steroids made from animal extracts.
9nW7 TIL the longest continual train rail can take you from the Portuguese coast, through Russia, all the way to southern Vietnam, covering over 10,700 miles (17k kilometers) and 17 countries in 13 days.
vBJK TIL that in 1998, Texan judge Jack Hampton sentenced a man for 30 years for killing two gay men instead of life requested by the prosecuter. He justified it by stating “I put prostitutes and gays at about the same level … and I’d be hard put to give somebody life for killing a prostitute.”
wLa6M TIL The half-life of an isotope of Tellerium is 160 Trillion times greater than the Universe's Age (Aprox. 13.8 billion) . The very-long-lived radioisotope Tellerium-128 thus has the longest known half-life among all the Radionuclides of around 2,200,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 years!