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TIL the United States is the only developed country without mandated vacation time for workers.

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KOX0a TIL that in 2009 a teenager was assaulted and gang-raped at a school in California, and it took over two hours for anyone to call the police despite there being multiple witnesses to the attack, some of whom allegedly filmed the proceedings instead
9Y6Wr TIL that Hitler, Stalin and Mussolini were all nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.
d8j08 TIL At 1:10 a.m. on May 9, 1945, night owls in the USSR heard a radio report that Nazi Germany had officially surrendered to the Soviet Union. Rather than wait until morning to celebrate, citizens took to the streets in their pajamas. 22 hours later, the entire country had run out of vodka.
OD86 TIL Chumlee of Pawn Stars makes $2500/h or $100,000/wk from his own merchandise business. This is due to his popularity on the show, surpassing all other Pawn Stars cast income.
n5kG TIL that under current South Korean laws if war breaks out South Korea doesn’t want to control its own military instead it wants the Americans to tell them what to do