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TIL Nearly one third of the American labor force works on the weekend

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BggAb Today I learned about “Yu-Mex”music. A genre of music popular during the 1950s and 1960s in Yugoslavia which incorporated elements of traditional Mexican music. Yugoslavian musicians were known to don sombreros in their performances.
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bZmZ TIL that even when a mouse population has enough resources- it will experience a societal breakdown when it runs out of space and then die off completely.
nYMY TIL the scientific adviser to the 2014 film Interstellar spent two weeks talking Christopher Nolan out of having a character travelling faster than the speed of light, as it defies the laws of physics
9wbAQ TIL Edmond Albius, a 12 year old Réunionese slave, invented the method of vanilla pollination still in use today. He was never properly rewarded for it and died impoverished in 1880.