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TIL In year 1240 BC, under the Reign of Ramses II, a valid reason to get out of work was brewing beer, your daughter bleeding, or having drinks with a colleague.

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Oo4P4 TIL of Hedviga Golik a Croatian woman who died in front of her television in her apartment in Zagreb in 1966 and was found 42 years later in 2008
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