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TIL Netflix allows employees to take unlimited maternity or paternity leave during the first year after their child’s birth or adoption.

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dDyEQ TIL that the United States 50 State Quarter program was inspired by Canada making quarters for each province and territory in 1992 for the 125th anniversary of Confederation
LN00 TIL there is a project called “A Call in the Night” that will call you once a week after 2am and connect you to a random person to discuss your dreams.
0dJZy TIL Severe Vitamin D deficiency can cause seizures due to hypocalcemia (low calcium level in blood)
oBvOY TIL Uraguay flight 571 crashed in the Andes in the 70s; survivors waited 2 months for help, all while being forced to eat the raw flesh of dead passengers. Two men walked 10 days and 40 miles through the mountain to safety
kOprm TIL that the poets Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Algernon Swinburne, TS Eliot, and Robert Lowell were all direct descendants of King Henry III.