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TIL The Senator responsible for a 40 hr workweek originally wanted 30 hrs

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NXXj1 TIL Aztecs felt a responsibility to sacrificed everyday, letting blood and cutting hearts to keep the sun in motion. Those sacrificed thought they would come back as hummingbirds.
GAmNG TIL PFC Sadeo Munemori was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for diving on a live grenade. He was the only Japanese American decorated during or immediately after WWII.
xVmRw TIL that giraffes have dark tongues to prevent them from suffering from sunburn.
1OjD TIL Kansas is actually flatter than a pancake
16BnW TIL that a Commodore 64 program was hidden in the "run-out groove" of the 1984 vinyl record album Electric Eye by the band Prodigal. When the program is loaded and run on the Commodore computer, it displays quotes from Albert Einstein and the Bible.