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TIL that in an 8-hour day, the average worker is only productive for 2 hours and 53 minutes.

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d8L68 TIL that tiddlywinks is a real game with national and international associations and there have been multiple World Singles championships.
M7LBm TIL while laying underwater cable in the Chicago river a diver discovered a 40ft submarine. Inside he found the remains of a human and a dog. Their identity is still a mystery more than a century later.
oBGZ8 TIL in 1944, three American B-29 bombers on missions over Japan were forced to land in the Soviet Union. The Soviets, who did not have a similar strategic bomber, decided to copy the B-29. Within three years, they had developed the Tu-4, a nearly-perfect copy
rNY1W TIL 536 was truly the ‘worst’ year to be alive
R5gp8 TIL Kokura was the main target for the "Fat Man" nuclear bomb, but on the morning of August 9, 1945, the city was obscured by morning fog. Because the order was to drop the bomb visually, the pilots diverted about 100 km south to Nagasaki, killing 35,000 people within seconds of its detonation.