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TIL Under Indonesian labor law, women “are not obliged to come to work on the first and second day of menstruation”

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W7jkA TIL that the US Air Force has a missile called the CHAMP capable of damaging electronic systems by means of an EMP (electromagnetic pulse).
5Y6ZB TIL that one of the few cases of a child actually dying from intentionally poisoned Halloween candy was Timothy O'Bryan. The Culprit had been his own father Ronald, who had laced his pixy sticks with cyanide to claim his life insurance.
WkMEB TIL During the US invasion of Afghanistan, a CIA paramilitary team was asked by a young man for help in rescuing his sister, whom a senior Taliban official had taken as his wife. They gave him a tracking device to pass along to her. As a result, the team captured the Taliban and rescued the sister.
GPZ7 TIL That there used to be pills that contained tapeworms, and when you lost the amount of weight you wanted to lose, you would take a second pill that killed the tapeworm.
xJJ0 TIL Fox News has a whole segment dedicated to recycling Reddit material. It’s called “Fox On Reddit.”