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TIL: If working the extra hour during time change, you are entitled to pay for that hour. If you’re not being compensated contact your HR/Labor Board

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KOGYR TIL in 1997 in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, a pot-bellied pig named Lulu saved her owner, having a heart attack. Lulu heard the owner's cries of pain then forced her way out of the yard and played dead on the road. Lulu successfully stopped a car and guided help to the owner, she survived.
xAlB TIL that you should never place a cut off part of your body on ice, instead wrap it in a damp cloth and place it in a sealed bag.
wLrM6 TIL Two infectious diseases have successfully been eradicated: smallpox and rinderpest.
9wLvQ TIL JFK’s last words were “No, they sure can’t” in response to Nellie Connally, First Lady of Dallas, who remarked “Mr. President, they can’t make you believe now that there are not some in Dallas who love you and appreciate you, can they?”
GlkJ TIL that for one day in 2008 there was an app in the App Store that cost $999.99 USD and did nothing. 8 people bought it.