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TIL:47 percent of Detroiters are ”functionally illiterate.”

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X06Yk TIL that in the U.S. an employer can forbid you from having a lunch break during work.
Gwd5 TIL Artificial grass got the name “AstroTurf” because the first professional team to play on it was the Houston Astros.
wLwAW TIL that ‘grape bricks’ (concentrated grape juice) were sold during Prohibition, which came with a warning not to mix the contents of the brick, yeast, water, and sugar in a pot and then seal such pot for seven days, or else “an illegal alcoholic beverage will result”
8a8YZ TIL that the largest lake in the world is also the oldest: Lake Baikal, Siberia. It contains 20% of the Earth's fresh surface water, and is 25 million years old.