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TIL that sharks are older than trees

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woV96 TIL In the middle half of the nineteenth century, more than one-half of the population of Ireland emigrated to the United States
nyZb TIL that Henry Ford was the first industrial giant to give his workers both Saturday and Sunday off, in hope that it would encourage more leisure use of automobiles - and thus popularising the idea of the “weekend”.
OokLR TIL - Mountain Dew is banned in over 100 countries for using a dangerous chemical called BVO. It was also created to be a mixer for moonshine. (Had to remake cause I couldnt spell or edit).
VBokZ TIL that in South Korea stock prices can only fluctuate 30% per day
V7RZ TIL that Eddie Vedder wrote ‘Jeremy’ after reading a brief newspaper article about a 15-year-old boy in Texas who brought a gun to class and shot himself, in front of his teacher and thirty students. Vedder wanted to show how even such a dramatic gesture would only get a few words in the daily news.