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TIL a Japanese company gave non-smokers 6 extra vacation days per year to compensate for time smokers spent during smoke breaks

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d86Vd TIL of Dr Randy Lovelace II, a Lt. Col. in the US Army Air Corps who worked on oxygen systems for high altitude jumps. In 1943 he volunteered to test his mask and jumped from a B17 at 40,000ft. The force of that deceleration knocked him out. tore his gloves off and frostbit his hand but he survived.
4ky5 TIL 35 years after it’s launch, it’s estimated Voyager 1’s power supply still has 76% of its initial capacity.
Z8gDo TIL Ancient European hunter-gatherers were using garlic mustard seeds to give their foods a peppery kick as far back as 6,000 years ago, making it the oldest evidence of spice used for cooking.
kkZd TIL W.T. Stead, a Victorian investigative journalist writing about child prostitution, bought an underage sex slave to prove how easily it could be done. He was sent to prison.
laoV TIL The two forward slashes in website URLs are useless, and Tim Berners-Lee has apologized for it’s design.