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TIL Sweden has a comparable grenade explosions per capita rate to Mexico. Most grenades used are ex-Yugoslavian M75 hand grenades

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LQYV9 TIL a UK trial of a 4-day workweek with 61 companies was so successful that 54 kept it, and most made it permanent. Employees worked less but stayed just as productive, with some companies seeing revenue grow by 35%. Workers also reported better health, less burnout, and even losing weight.
m7gR TIL Trey Parker (Co-creator of South Park) has an autographed picture of Saddam Hussein in his office.
KNea TIL that the show ‘Firefly’ has been permanently added to the International Space Station as a form of entertainment for the station’s crews.
VBQPZ TIL an MIT professor evaluated Nikola Tesla’s “death ray” technology for the FBI. His lab director would later say “over a period of three decades, he would be approached by people of all sorts because he could make megavolt beams of ions and electrons – death rays.”
Y7eDd TIL about "Terva Leijona" (Tar lion), a finnish caramel made of solidified pitch tar, licorice and salt. The flavor is described as herbal.