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TIL: The Japanese consider sleeping at work honorable as it signals exhaustion from hard work

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bG47 TIL of an Australian man who has donated blood over 1100 times, and saved over two million babies. His blood contains a rare combination of antibodies that is used to treat Rhesus disease.
9YnKQ TIL Russell Crowe now looks like an old D&D player.
NVXP TIL in Sweden fathers are eligible for 13 months of PAID leave for every child they have.
woG06 TIL that during the battle for the village of Raseiniai, which took place 23–27 June 1941, a lone KV tank held off the advance of the 6th Panzer Division for a single day, before being overrun and knocked out on the morning of June 25.
EyVw TIL that knighthood in Normandy had little social status prior to the crusades. Knights were poor and “land-hungry”. The title only represented professional warriors who were able to own a war horse.