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TIL hunter-gatherer societies had approximately five-hour workdays

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9YpeD TIL the Indian government commissioned a 2-hour Bollywood feature film called "Toilet", designed to help eradicate the practice of public defecation.
El6x TIL in 2004, a hurricane badly damaged a building in Cocoa Beach, Florida. While the lower levels rotted, a windowless upper space was used as a residence for ten years. The space’s resident was finally evicted in 2014, but committed suicide the next day.
ZpgQ4 TIL the longest straight border in Australia, the WA/SA-NT border, isn’t straight at all. It moves 127 metres from the 129° E parallel halfway. 40yrs after two marked obelisks were placed on other sides of the continent, it was realised one was entirely in the wrong place—but kept the border anyway.
Bv8D TIL: Dr. Seuss is credited with inventing the word “Nerd”
GYedJ TIL: British stole and scammed India out of $45 trillion [adjusted], over 173 years of imperial control