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TIL that in Spain employees get 14 monthly paychecks a year (a double pay in Christmas and summer)

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v1pA4 TIL, Deodorant...Egyptians "invented the art of scented bathing" and took to applying perfume to their pits. The first trademarked deodorant -- in 1888! -- was called Mum, and the first antiperspirant, Everdry, followed 15 years later.
OoOr1 TIL the ice cream brand Häagen-Dazs is a completely fabricated foreign name. The actual company founders were New York Jews who wanted a Danish-sounding brand name to honor Danes after WWII.
Lk4dm TIL that in 2005, the London Underground started playing orchestral soundtracks in 65 tube stations as part of a scheme to deter anti-social behavior. As a result, a 33 percent decline in robberies, a 25 percent decline in staff verbal assaults, and a 37 percent decrease in vandalism was observed.
1X4r TIL the US ICBM arsenal relies on 8-inch floppy disks
N7YdN TIL George Romero came up with the screenplay for "Night of the Living Dead" from a short story he wrote, which he "basically ripped off" from the Richard Matheson novel "I Am Legend".