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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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7rOPb TIL about the mid-Atlantic or transatlantic accent. It was not a natural accent; it was generally taught to actors and the upper class in north eastern American society. Many news reels from the 30s and 40s reek of it. Transatlantic accent fell out of vogue after World War 2.
WkMR4 TIL that 37% of all registered Steam games have never been played. This equates to 288 million of the 781 million games registered, are left untouched.
j6EvN TIL In 1991 two hikers walking through the mountains bordering Italy and Switzerland found a body. Swiss Rangers found it was a 5000-year-old mummy now known as "Ötzi". He is considered the oldest fully complete human found yet.
jgPp TIL there is a theory by Richard Feynman that suggests there is only one electron in the universe and it weaves itself back and forth through time to create everything we know and see.
OoWma TIL Money, in fact, can buy happiness. A Harvard study showed more money = more happiness, esp millionaires who are self-made.