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TIL Spaniards abolished forced military conscription with massive civil disobedience

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y0yw TIL it’s estimated that Bing Crosby recordings filled more than half of the radio time allocated to recorded music in 1948.
BBMy TIL that the voice of Tony the Tiger (Thurl Ravenscroft) was also the singer of You’re a Mean One Mr. Grinch
R7EP8 TIL the suicide rate of retail workers is higher than the average, with one worker saying: “People getting angry at me telling them what to do, cussing me out, being rude to me over it. It’s unbearable.”
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VNmp TIL The most push-ups done non-stop was 10,507 in 1980, and was the last time Guinness World Records published a non-stop push-up record