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TIL that in the U.S. an employer can forbid you from having a lunch break during work.

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rNddw TIL about Hannah ocuish a native American 12 yo girl who is believed to be the youngest person ever executed in the United States.
7rrKP TIL of Prison View, a public golf course located inside the Louisiana State Penitentiary (Angola).
OG7y7 TIL that in 1917, during World War I, the British Army tried to train seagulls to poop on German U-boat periscopes to obscure their view. They even tested it with fake periscopes on beaches, but the gulls were more interested in stealing sandwiches than sinking submarines.
0wldL TIL there is a course from MIT called the “Missing Semester" that goes through the Shell, Vim, Git, data wrangling, etc — all the stuff that CS students are just ‘supposed to know’ but aren’t usually formally taught in a classroom
J16m4 TIL that Wing Chun kung-fu is allegedly named after Yim Wing Chun, a legendary 17th century woman who was taught the martial art by a Shaolin Buddhist nun to defeat a local bully who was trying to force Yim to marry him