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TIL that some countries, such as Japan, have laws that mandate a woman be allowed to take time off (often unpaid) during their period.

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epAA6 TIL that the 9/11 attacks cost Cantor Fitzgerald 658 employees. The CEO, who that day was driving his kid to school, eventually gave the families $180 million and promised employment to all the victims' kids. As of 2016, Cantor Fitzgerald employed 57 of the kids.
e0oY6 Today I learned that Bob Marley's death was from skin cancer on his toe that metastasized and spread to his lungs.
OGL4R TIL Ronald Reagan's speechwriter Peter Robinson originally intended for him to deliver the famous line "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall" in German. Robinson thought the big line should be about opening the Brandenburg Gate because he argued that is an even bigger symbol to the Germans
O6N1 TIL that Genghis Khan was responsible for the deaths of so many people that the earth’s carbon levels dropped by almost 700 million tons
NWbb TIL that there’s a perpetual student named Michael W. Nicholson who has earned 29 degrees