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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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BrKQk TIL for 20 years, the wooden pieces for every Scrabble set in North America were manufactured in Fairfax, Vermont. FYI, in the US, the standard Scrabble sets had wooden tiles, and the deluxe ones had plastic, but in Europe, it was the other way around.
yQM4w TIL: A "Baker's Dozen" is a result of a 13th century English law saying that selling a dozen units that failed to meet a certain average weight could result in a fine. Bakers got around the law by selling by the "13" instead.
d8ZMZ TIL President John Adams started smoking at 8 and drinking at 15. He lived to be 90.
wVQE TIL that defense attorney Clement Vallandigham accidentally killed himself during a trial, while trying to demonstrate to the jury that his defendant’s victim could have accidentally shot himself with a pistol. The jury was so convinced by this demonstration that the defendant was later acquitted.
x61Eo TIL that in 1894 an elephant in malaysia charged into a moving train to defend its herd. the train derailed and 2 people were killed.