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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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dJld TIL C-4 is very stable and insensitive to most physical shocks. C-4 cannot be detonated by a gunshot or by dropping it onto a hard surface.
KYyN6 TIL: In the United States, children were considered the parents property until the 1960s. Even in 1956, attempts to pass U.S. Federal legislation to ban baby-selling failed.
xVkP7 TIL that at least one person has been killed by a lava lamp. In 2004, Philip Quinn decided to heat his lava lamp on the kitchen stove. The lamp exploded, shooting a shard of glass into his heart and ending his life.
Wk6eN TIL there’s a type of honey called "mad honey," which causes hallucinations. Honey hunters in Nepal make dangerous vertical climbs to harvest it since it sells for $60-80 a pound
rMoe TIL in 1961 Donald Reid built a Flying Submarine. It was demonstrated on 9 June 1964 where it dove to a depth of 6.5 feet (2 m) then flew to an altitude of 33 ft (10 m) .