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TIL that the average hunter gatherer had more leisure time than a typical working adult does today.

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0wOBL TIL about Memory of Mankind, a sophisticated time capsule project in Austria designed to last a million years. The designers made a system for the capsule to be discovered by a future society and even planned for the possibility of it being discovered by alien life.
wLyZW TIL that when Henry Ford doubled the pay of his auto workers from $2.50 per day to $5, he didn't do it for altruistic reasons. His factory had one of the highest turnover rates (due to danger of the assembly line and tedium of the work). After the raises, it dropped to the lowest.
GYx4G TIL that people who don’t get enough sleep are more likely to have bigger appetites due to the fact that their leptin levels (leptin is an appetite-regulating hormone) fall, promoting appetite increase.
R7O1j TIL when Germany invaded Western Europe many WWI monuments were damaged or destroyed. However Hitler assigned the SS to protect the Canadian Vimy Ridge memorial because it was a monument to peace and those lost. Not to an allied victory
VMWkm TIL that there are more chickens on planet earth than humans