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

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R5Dd6 TIL due to the failure of the Boeing 2707, a Concorde competitor, and a downturn in general aviation in the 1970s, Boeing fired 60,000 employees. So many people left Seattle that a billboard was placed near the airport that read "Will the last person leaving Seattle turn out the lights?"
e0k7E TIL in Texas, the law states two individuals who feel the need to fight can agree to mutual combat through verbal or implied communication and have at it. As long as no “serious” injury occurs and both participants know what degree of risk they are hazarding, it's allowed.
oJLR TIL Australia is the only nation to govern an entire continent [source: my toilet paper, then verified via Google]
XEoKj TIL that Americans still have a tax on their phone bill to pay for the 1898 Spanish-American war.
7J0Z TIL “Boko Haram” means “Western education is forbidden” in English. Mohammed Yusuf, the group’s first leader, has stated that he does not believe that the Earth is a sphere, nor does he believe that evaporation causes rain.