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TIL: 2 countries have 0.00% unemployment

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P1xjO TIL about Shingle Weavers, men who operated saws to cut Red Cedar into roof shingles. Fires, missing fingers/hands, and sawdust lining their lungs were common hazards of the job.
rR9A4 TIL almost all airplane seats are blue because physcologists discovered that the color helps to calm anxiety and relieve fear, which makes the plane ride more comfortable for many people.
Lk6Er TIL breathing the air in Mumbai for one day during Diwali is as good as smoking Two packs of cigarettes.
4XEbg TIL ciabatta has only been around since 1982.
8aZKb TIL that at one point the Chicago River was so dirty from the city’s waste that it made the water from Lake Michigan undrinkable. To remedy this Chicago reversed the direction of its river away from the lake and toward the Mississippi River