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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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wgrW TIL:in 1927, James Dole the “Pineapple King” sponsored the Dole Air Race, putting up a prize of $25,000 for the first airplane to fly from Oakland to Honolulu and $10,000 for second place. Those prizes were won by the only two airplanes to survive the flight. Ten other people died in their attempts.
RyOj TIL of True History, considered the earliest form of science fiction written in 2nd century about adventurers who travel to outer space and get involved in interplanetary warfare between the king of the Moon and the king of the Sun
wLZJM TIL in antartica, scientists recently found fossil fragments of 13 trees that are over 260 million years old, meaning that this forest was growing at the end of the Permian Period, before the first dinosaurs. At that time, Antarctica was still at the South pole
X007j TIL Mark Cuban founded a company called Cost Plus Drugs that delivers life-saving medications without price gouging for as little as 0.5% of their normal retail price.
gvP9 TIL In the United States, fake abortion “clinics” set up by religious organizations outnumber real abortion clinics by about 2/1.