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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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6EmAW TIL about the Pochonbo Electronic Ensamble, a North Korean orchestra that performs folk and revolutionary (DPRK propaganda) music
jNrnX TIL that the Collyer brothers, Homer and Langley, filled their house with over 100 tons of random objects. Langley constructed a maze of tunnels, complete with deadly booby traps, to protect his brother, who never left his room. Langley was killed by his own traps, and Homer starved to death.
8angX TIL: Ostriches are the only birds that have bladders
QJknk TIL Grey eyes appear grey due to Mie scattering, the same type of scattering that causes the sky to appear grey on rainy days.
VMo5k TIL in 1962, Johnny Carson found out his wife had a secret apartment. He broke into the place with a gun and found football player Frank Gifford's framed photos. Getting sad, he drank all night and joked "That guy plays three positions on the field. I could never get Joanne to go for more than two."