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

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Evx7 TIL President Rutherford B. Hayes owned the first Siamese kitten to reach America.
VBr4 TIL that in the U.S. you can theoretically sue someone and then challenge them to trial by combat to decide who is liable.
Wk4DL Til: The "X" in Xbox game console refers to relying on the directx api and was choosen by the directx team at microsoft
ADx9a TIL of Pālītāṇā in India which, with a population of nearly 65,000, became the world’s first legally Vegetarian city in 2014.
47Ea TIL one of the countermeasures against war elephants was to douse some pigs with oil or resin, set them alight, and drive them towards the enemy’s elephants. The elephants would bolt in terror from the flaming, squealing pigs, often killing great numbers of soldiers by trampling them to death.