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TIL about the huge luxury houseboat industry on the massive rice paddy network in Kerala India

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b9D8a TIL the Fair Labor Standards Act was originally drafted in 1932 by Senator Hugo Black, whose proposal to require employers to adopt a thirty-hour workweek met fierce resistance (the Act later standardized the 40 hour work week)
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