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TIL only eight different countries have ever won the World Cup

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d8Jmj TIL that the average workweek for a manufacturing employee in the 1890s was 100 hours. The five day, 40-hour workweek didn't become standard until 1940 thanks to the passing of the Fair Labor Standards Act, which required employers to pay overtime to anyone working more than 40 hours.
n7dr TIL The Atari game Swordquest had a contest that gave the first players to find clues in game a Talisman, Chalice, Crown, Philosopher Stone each worth over $25k. These finalist would compete for the Sword of Ultimate Sorcery, This never happened and the Sword may be lost.
oBlbA TIL the 1954 novel "Lord Of The Flies" by William Golding is Stephen King's favorite book
b91dQ TIL of the Nazino affair - the mass deportation of 6,000 "socially harmful" people to Nazino Island in the Soviet Union in May 1933. They were abandoned with only flour for food, and little in the way of tools, clothing, or shelter, and those who attempted to leave were killed by armed guards.
eNwg TIL Jesus’ foreskin is called the “Holy Prepuce” and several European churches have claimed to be in possession of it and that it has miraculous powers