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Z861o TIL In 1817: Welsh manufacturer and labor rights activist Robert Owen coins the phrase “Eight hours labor, eight hours recreation, eight hours rest,” dividing the day into three equal eight-hour parts. Creating the 40 hour work week.
rV4d TIL when B-52’s singer Fred Schneider tried to come out as gay to his mother as she was vacuuming, she simply replied “Oh I know, Freddie” and continued to vacuum without missing a beat.
ne8dd TIL that the US Constitution mandates that citizens to Representatives are on a 30,000:1 ratio. This was eliminated in 1929 with the implementation of cap at 435 total representatives. The current ratio is currently about 770,000 citizens to each Rep.
dBvB TIL in 1994, flying home from the U.S., Russian President Boris Yeltsin was scheduled to stop over in Ireland and meet the Taoiseach (prime minister). Yeltsin overslept, so his men claimed he was too unwell to leave the plane and they flew on to Moscow, leaving the Taoiseach standing on the tarmac.
XEkvQ TIL Japanese do not throw away broken pottery, but instead fix it by repairing it with gold so that the cracks become part of its beauty, as part of a philosophy that treats breakage and repair as part of the history of an object, rather than something to hide