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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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Opj7 TIL that the WWI Native American code talkers lacked words for modern-day military terms. They used “big gun” for artillery, “little gun shoot fast” for machine gun, “stone” for grenade and “scalps” for casualties, etc.
VmOD TIL in 2007, a 75 year old woman from Virginia named Mona Shaw, smashed up a comcast office with a hammer from being fed up with their poor customer service.
MegjA TIL Bismuth 209 was long thought to be a stable isotope until scientists discovered it actually has a half life of 19 quintillion years
OG5W4 TIL that when Thomas Jefferson was in the White House he kept a flock of sheep on the White House lawn and one of them killed a small child.
rNBgM TIL the James Webb Telescope has revealed secrets of the universe's first billion years, offering new insights into early galaxy formation.