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TIL Netflix employees get unlimited vacation days.

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a1AA TIL Harriet Tubman was brain-damaged at a young age. She acquired narcolepsy, a sign of hippocampal deterioration. Her owner listed her as disabled. She claimed to receive visions and prophesies from God.
PYxvZ TIL in Waco Texas, 1916, 10,000 people watched the lynching of Jesse Washington (castrated, burned, and mutilated for 2+ hours) A photographer sold postcards of the event. Prominent citizens eventually persuaded photographer to stop selling them fearing the images would come to characterize the town
NXeM6 TIL that nearly 25% of the world's population is Muslim
WgGX TIL in 2011 a 30 year-old former delivery driver beat 53,000 competitors and won the PlayStation Gran Turismo Academy and launched his professional career as a race car driver.
EgP6W TIL as a result of the episode ‘Band in China’, South Park was banned in China.