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TIL A Japanese company has awarded its non-smoking employees 6 extra vacation days to compensate for the smoker’s smoke breaks

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v1DpD TIL of the Mid Night Club who would race on Tokyo's highways in excess of 200 mph in highly modified street cars.
YpPvB TIL Alan Rickman's final role was narrating a tortoise eating a strawberry
yQByJ TIL sperm whale oil was used in cars until the 1970's
b9RJ9 TIL during the Kent State shootings, where the National Guard shot at and killed students protesting the Vietnam War, 58% of Americans believe it was the students' fault for the shootings
kmrm TIL: In 1973, a man tried to rob a bank in Kenora Ontario with dynamite strapped to his chest. A police sniper shot him, detonating the explosives and blowing him up. He has never been identified.