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TIL I learned the concept of the weekend is, in most part, owed to Henry Ford. Christian laborers would always request Sunday for a day off and the large Jewish immigrant population always requested Saturdays off as the traditional day of rest.

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mOGP TIL: Up until 1978, the Mormon Church taught that blacks were once an evil race of Jews who were coloured by God for their wickedness
QNRyd TIL during the Irish Famine (1845-1849), under the ruling British Government, huge quantities of food were exported from Ireland to England throughout the period when the people of Ireland were dying of starvation.
w091 TIL : The skull Russians kept as evidence of Hitler’s death is actually the skull of a woman.
6MJ TIL Bill Bailey was the first person to be recorded doing the Moonwalk, not MJ. [12:53]
1aRQ7 TIL researchers discovered bacteria that naturally evolved to eat away at polyethylene terephthalate, the plastic known as PET or polyester. While studying the structure of an enzyme found in that bacteria, they accidentally created a “mutant enzyme” that can break down plastic within a few days