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TIL Flowering plants first appeared 15 million years after the Jurassic period ended

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erpJ TIL France has many 49 employee companies because of a 3200 page rule book that places more obligations and rules towards companies having 50 or more employees. Rules like creating three worker councils, profit sharing, restructure plans if they wanted to fire an employee.
pNEG TIL the reason Morton salt has the little girl with the umbrella as their logo is because Morton discovered that adding magnesium carbonate to table salt made it pour more freely and not clump up, even in humid or rainy weather. Hence their slogan, “When it rains, it pours. ”
7rjvL TIL It is commonly claimed 'What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger' however research shows that past stressful experiences do not create resilience to future trauma. Past traumatic experiences increase vulnerability to several mental illnesses.
pZQ4 TIL That in New Jersey, people convicted of drunk driving are banned from using vanity plates.
KdEa TIL Many animals were harmed during the filming of Milo and Otis. It was reported that 20 kittens were killed acting as Milo, the producer allegedly had broken a cat’s paw for a scene and threw another one off a cliff.