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TIL that in 1892 New Orleans transit workers went on strike to reduce their workday from 16 to 12 hours a day.

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4XZMa TIL the Earth often has more than one moon. The Earth captures asteroids and they orbit our planet for about a year before being pulled away by the sun. The mini-moon 2020 CD3 left us on March 7th and was about the size of a compact car. The technical term is "temporarily captured object."
JYbem TIL that Martin Luther King Jr. won a Grammy at the 13th Grammy Awards in 1971. That is one more than Katy Perry, Snoop Dogg and Nicki Minaj.
Qay6 TIL that the “natural flavoring” in some vanilla, strawberry, and raspberry flavored foods is a substance derived from the scent sacs of a beavers butthole.
4XMOg TIL that General George Washington was almost killed by a British Marksman
Kkjw TIL the hamlet of Shitterton in Dorset England had it’s town sign stolen so often, the inhabitants banded together to purchase a 1.5-ton block of stone to place at the entrance to Shitterton, carved with the hamlet’s name.