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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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OG6m1 TIL 2024 is a Tetrahedral (or Triangular Pyramidal) Number
Y1Vd TIL that most mermaid “sightings” were most likely manatees, dugongs, or Steller’s sea cows. In fact, Christopher Columbus spotted 3 manatees near the Dominican Republic and would later write that mermaids are “not half as beautiful as they are painted.”
QJmwE TIL that Andy Warhol was an unabashed fan of "The Love Boat", and his diaries record a meeting to score a guest spot. He appeared as himself on the 200th Episode, costarring with Andy Griffith, Milton Berle, Cloris Leachman, Tom Bosley and Marion Ross.
KY67E TIL about one in every 220 Americans was addicted to opioids in the 1890s, mainly from patent medicines, and one of the most popular treatments for addiction was injections of 'bichloride of gold', which sounded impressive but had no medical effects
DlQv TIL that basketball player Kevin Love is a blood relative of 4 of the 5 original Beach Boys.