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TIL New parents in Sweden are entitled to 480 days of leave at 80% of their normal pay and dads also get 90 paid paternity days.

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vaA7 TIL: Canadian journalist Craig Davidson injected illegal steroids over a 16 week period and wrote about his experiences. He loved his new body - but not the hideous side-effects..
WJ9A TIL: In the Dr. Seuss movie “The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T”, one of the 150 boys vomited on the piano while filming. This caused a chain reaction resulting in 150 vomiting boys. Dr. Seuss said that the film’s reviews were similar.
6Eg9w TIL Nat sec advisor Brzezinski was woken at 3am by a call telling him Russia launched 250 ICBMs at the U. S. Minutes later, he received another call: The early-warning system actually showed 2,000 inbound missiles. As he began to phone the president, he received a third call: It was a false alarm.
nMmB TIL the most decorated enlisted man in the British Army in WWI was a conscientious objector who never fired a single shot. He was a stretcher bearer who won the Victoria cross for charging into fire unarmed and carrying out 3 wounded men on his back
ne4jb TIL of Albert Anastasia who at 19 killed a coworker in a fight and was sentenced to death. He won a retrial on a technicality and was freed when no witnesses reappeared. He then became one of America’s deadliest mobsters personally murdering at least 1,200 people and ordering the deaths of 10,000+.