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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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krjm TIL when a airplane crashed in the icy Potomac River, Arland Williams and 5 other survivors fled to the tail section. He was then tossed a lifeline from a helicopter twice and handed it off twice to others more severely injured than himself. He ended up being the only victim to die by drowning.
D1Qle TIL that Parents are worse at telling if their child is lying than complete strangers.
d88Nj TIL: Alan Smithee, a pseudonym used by film directors who wish to disown a project, stopped in 1998 after the director of the movie “Burn Hollywood Burn” (a film about a fictional director actually named Alan Smithee trying to disown his movie) used the pseudonym himself.
GbK5 TIL Iranians still use the ancient form of air conditioning called the badgir. It is a tower with vents on top and allows cool air to accelerate down into a building. Zion National Park in Utah has a modern example of this, where temps reach over 100 F, the visitors center stays at cool 73 F.
mxQWp TIL US airlines commonly offered bereavement airfares, allowing passengers to travel to funerals or medical emergencies at deep discounts. This practice was stopped by most carriers in the early 2000s, with the exception of Delta and Alaska Airlines.