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TIL that in the European Union you are not allowed to skip your break if you are working more than 6 hours a day.

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GgAj TIL That there is an asteroid that is following Earth’s orbit around the sun.
r8D1 TIL in 1975 a cat was listed as co-author on a physics paper because the author had incorrectly used the royal “we” throughout the paper and didn’t want to typewrite the whole thing again
JYy98 TIL insufficient sleep has an impact on total daily energy expenditure, food intake, & weight gain. Increased food intake during insufficient sleep is a physiological adaptation to provide energy needed to sustain additional wakefulness;
0dNW5 TIL national survey fielded online by Harris Interactive in June 2012 among over 2,000 U.S. adults ages 18 and older found that more than 40% of Americans fight about loading the dishwasher.
78Bkb TIL that the first women in America to earn a PhD in computer science was a Catholic nun, Sister Mary Keller