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TIL Russian millionare Pavel Durov was so bored at the office, he threw paper airplanes made of money out his window, causing a brawl outside

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6EjNQ TIL that the standard workday was reduced to 8 hours because of international protests held on May 1st, the original Labor Day. "May Day" is still celebrated in most places around the globe, by everyone from Communists to Catholics, with the exception of the United States.
69mrX TIL if you have blurry vision and stare at a dim point-source light in a dark room, focusing on the irregularities in the blurry circle of light, you will see microscopic solid and liquid particulates in your eye. This is an entoptic phenomenon. (see desc)
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k6GE TIL One of the Hyena’s Ancestors Had a Bite that Could Splinter Elephant Bones
wLeYE TIL Steven Spielberg didn’t want to direct Indiana Jones because it was planned to be a trilogy and he didn’t want to write 2 more scripts. George Lucas told him not to worry as he’d already written them, but when time came for the first sequel, Lucas revealed he’d written nothing for either sequel.