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TIL that Iceland had a strike in 1975 called The Long Friday where women didn't do any work for a full day, paid or unpaid. And also learned Iceland is now ranked high in gender equality.

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GYMkE TIL Shirley Temple appeared in blackface in "Littlest Rebel"
n1Er TIL that cheap yo-yos can spin approximately 10-20 seconds, with a record of nearly 4 minutes, while professional ball bearing yo-yos can spin for 1-4 minutes, with a record of just over 21 minutes.
6E87Y TIL that due to the threat of a one million dollar budget overage Warner Bros. Studio gave up production of the film 'Home Alone' to 20th Century Fox. The film went on to gross 300 million dollars, shattering box office records of the time.
ZPmB TIL if you laid all the molecules in a teaspoon of water end to end, it would stretch 10 times the width of the solar system
WkDLY TIL about an emotion liget(native to a tribe in Philippines), it doesn't have an exact translation in English, Renato Rosaldo(who went to live with that tribe along with his wife for some time in 1967) couldn't descibe it to westerners at first but then he felt it when his wife died.