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TIL Administrative Professionals Day is on the Wednesday of the last full week of April. It was started in 1952 by the National Secretaries Association.

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OGR4 TIL In 1980 R2-D2 visited Sesame Street and fell in love with a fire hydrant
WkjmL TIL A woman complained about a long history of seeing people’s faces change into dragon-like faces. Brain scans were normal, but researchers suspected a neurological basis for the woman's complaint. She was put on a dose of anti-dementia drug, which help vanquish the dragons.
Wor8 TIL: since 2006 US retail companies have cut 1,000,000 full time positions and added 500,000 part time positions.
QNR5X TIL that there are many hybrid eating utensils. In addition to the spork, which combines a spoon with a fork, there are the chork (chopsticks + fork), the spife (spoon + knife), and the knork (knife + fork).
PYypJ TIL in 2011, a 13 year old Norwegian boy encountered a pack of wolves while walking back alonefrom school. He managed to fend them off by removing his headphones and blasting the song "Overcome", by Creed on full volume