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TIL a company in japan offers extra days off to workers who don’t smoke since they don’t take smoking breaks.

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MeVZ8 TIL that Old Faithful was once used to do laundry. Clothes were placed in the geyser prior to an eruption, and the clothes would then be ejected thoroughly cleaned.
L0B0 TIL There is a chemical reaction that produces a tree-like formation of Silver. Many philosophers believed it could be “Life in the kingdom of minerals.”
VBYkm TIL of mad honey, the hallucinogenic product of certain asian honeybees that eat rhododendrons,
mVLR TIL there is an extinct genus of ape, Gigantopithecus blacki, which stood up to 3 metres tall, weighed as much as 540 kg and have actually been contemporary with modern humans for tens of thousands of years. (Sorry if repost)
ONQe TIL Jim Henson operated Kermit from a cramped diving bell underwater with an air hose to the surface for The Rainbow Connection intro to The Muppet Movie. Filming took 5 days.