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TIL that Denmark was the first nation to pay worker compensation to women, nurses and air hostesses, who had developed breast cancer after years of night-shift work in government sponsored jobs.

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PZKg TIL North Korea has numerous concentration camps that are frighteningly similar to Auschwitz. Torture is abundant with 30% of most prisoners having some sort of facial injury. Human experimentation is preformed on unwilling prisoners. Meals are very bare and the “cells” are made out of dried mud.
0d5Q5 TIL after 8 long-expired medications were discovered in a retail pharmacy in their original, unopened containers, an anaylsis found that 12 of the 14 active ingredients in the medications had retained full potency for at least 28 years, with 8 of those 12 retaining full potency for at least 40 years
4XNb6 TIL the most expensive Mega-Project ever was Eisenhower's Interstate Highway System, costing 500 billion dollars, spanning 48,181 miles, and dwarfing the cost of every other Mega-Project in history.
4kmxR TIL that in 2000, Pope John Paul II became a Harlem Globetrotter
YpMRA TIL that in 2008 and at the age of 45, Flea, bass player of the multiplatinum rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers, enrolled as a freshman at University of Southern California's music program to learn the academic side of music.