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TIL In France you're not allowed to work more than 218 days a year

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mxWWv TIL that Cats the musical uses carefully crafted yak hair wigs for costumes. In 2016, they cost $2300 each and it took 40 hours or more to make a single wig. The wigs can’t be re-used. Over its 18-year run, the first Broadway production used 3247 pounds of yak hair.
ProO TIL That Joe Walsh, Guitarist in the Eagles and other bands, ran for president in 1980 on the platform of “free gas for everyone” and promised to make “Life’s Been Good” the new national anthem if he won.
WknaX TIL Juvena Huang, a 20 something girl, rode from Singapore to Czech republic on her Vespa Scooter covering 44,000km, 25 countries in 27 months. She took this journey in memory of a friend who had inspired her to ride bikes and had later passed away. Truly an inspirational story.
jd6X TIL Genghis Khan’s chief adviser was a captured scholar named Yelu Chucai. His contribution to the Mongol Empire was to suggest that the Mongols not kill everyone, but tax them instead.
wKK7 TIL That The PTC (Parents Television Council) is responsible for the most content complaints ever sent to the FCC and is listed as a Hate Group on Wikipedia.