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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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jNGNX TIL Khajuraho: India’s temples of sex built-in 10th AD are a group of temples covered with erotic sculptures that involve masturbation, group sex, and bestiality & are of Tantric origin. Studies say that they represent the ultimate embodiment of Yogic Purusha & Prakati.
mywx TIL that during WWII JFK was stranded in the solomon islands, and ended up carving a message into a coconut, that a native delivered to the nearest US base and saved his life
j6pDR TIL that in Cowboy Bebop the voice actors for Spike Spiegel (Steve Blum) and Julia (Mary Elizabeth McGlynn) are married in real life.
5YMA9 TIL that the Unification Church (aka 'The Moonies') supplies most of the sushi restaurants in the United States
nebVP TIL that London's Australia House gives out drinkable water from 900-year-old 'holy well'