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TIL that there’s an hourglass in Budapest that takes a full year to run out. It takes four people almost an hour to turn it.

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nyZb TIL that Henry Ford was the first industrial giant to give his workers both Saturday and Sunday off, in hope that it would encourage more leisure use of automobiles - and thus popularising the idea of the “weekend”.
JYd5B TIL that McDonalds has a Gold Card that entitles the holder to free, unlimited food. Warren Buffet and Bill Gates have one, as does Charles Ramsey, who ditched his half-eaten Big Mac to help rescue three kidnapped women.
9YM9Q TIL in 2001, on a flight to Kenya, the pilot passed out at the controls of his private plane, Rowan Atkinson took control of the Cessna 202 aircraft - saving the lives of his wife and two children. The pilot eventually came to, after several slaps by Atkinson, and managed to land the plane safely
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