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TIL payment company Square starts off every week with a company-wide morale check, asking employees “How do we feel” and “What are we not talking about,” and then shares the answers in a Google Doc for all to see

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oMRr TIL that when Perdue Pharmaceuticals made OxyContin crush/melt/tamper resistant in 2010 prescriptions fell 20% nationwide and heroin ODs rose 20%
6o87 TIL that Franken-Berry (children’s cereal) Used to Turn People’s Poo Pink Due to an Inability To Break Down the Heavily-Dyed Cereal. The Symptom Was Referred to as “Franken-Berry Stool”
VZOk TIL that because “diplomatic bags” are protected by international law from being searched, a last-minute shipment of replacement parts for the toilet in the International Space Station was transported in a “diplomatic bag” from Russia to Florida to arrive before liftoff.
YpjOr TIL cherries are one of the only natural food sources of melatonin, the hormone that regulates the sleep-wake cycle
BXZL TIL that astronauts must have good airflow around them when they sleep, otherwise they, “…could wake up oxygen-deprived and gasping for air, because a bubble of their own exhaled carbon dioxide had formed around their heads.”