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TIL that a Japanese company gives non-smoking employees 6 more vacation days since they don't take smoking breaks

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4bXg TIL 48 countries including the US and Russia have signed a convention that bans the use of weather control in times of war.
wM66 TIL the Third Reich devised the idea of carrying the Olympic torch through a relay system
Lbar TIL that during the Iran Hostage Crisis, American embassy staff tried to burn classified documents but the furnace malfunctioned, forcing them to use cheap paper shredders. After the takeover, Iran employed carpet weavers to put the shredded documents together.
E1D7w TIL on March 20, 2007, David Letterman became ill less than an hour before his show was to start. Adam Sandler, who was to be one of his guests that night, filled in for him and hosted the whole show
OGLdY TIL Chinese Prime Minister Wellington Koo earned multiple degrees from Columbia in New York. Koo's 1912 PhD thesis was "The Status of Aliens in China" and Columbia has a fellowship bearing his name to doctoral students in social science focused on East Asia