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TIL In 1915 Closing and Opening times in pubs had to be implemented to stop factory workers showing up to work drunk and harming the war effort

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P6De TIL that WWII General George Patton believed that he was a reincarnated ancient Roman soldier, an he also thought that he had served under Napoleon.
j5rn TIL In 1999, an unemployed woman living with her sister ended up taking a job giving massages to workers of a small tech startup named “Google”. She was only paid $450 a week, but given stock options. Within 5 years she was worth millions, and the price of her stock has only continued to increase.
XEkAD TIL that after 9/11, Martin Scorcese was pressured to remove the Twin Towers seen in the ending of the 2002 movie "Gangs Of New York". Scorsese chose to keep the scene in, saying that "The people in the film ... were part of the creation of that skyline, not the destruction of it."
NXrGM TIL about Exploding Head Syndrome (EHS) a type of sleep disorder in which you hear a loud noise or explosive crashing sound in your head. The sound isn't real or heard by anyone else.
EKMP TIL when the platypus was first discovered, European naturalists were so baffled by it’s appearance that it was thought to be an elaborate hoax