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

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xVwr1 TIL an episode of Peppa Pig which teaches children that spiders are harmless is banned in Australia.
RWdj TIL of Forest Kindergartens where kids aged 3-6 go to play outside in the forest in the rain, snow, or shine. They develop better mental and physical abilities through all the activities.
MegKW TIL of surgeon Robert Liston, who in the era of before anaesthetics, could amputate a limb in under 30 seconds and was known, in order to free both hands, to hold the bloody knife in his teeth.
rN6me TIL that during court proceedings, Oklahoma judge Donald D. Thompson often used a penis pump, and occasionally shaved his scrotum and urinated in a trash can. He was eventually disbarred, prosecuted, did prison time, and then sued the state to keep his $8,800 judicial pension. He lost.
wVeE TIL that children being born are the first in two centuries to have a lower life expectancy than their parents, and the cause of it is obesity