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TIL In China, An Estimated 1,600 White-Collar Workers Are Dying From Overwork A Day

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bZVj TIL that after the success of the song “Barbie Girl”, toy-maker Mattell filed a lawsuit against Aqua for the sexual insinuation in the song. The judge dismissed the case saying, “The parties are advised to chill.”
b0JZ TIL the gender-neutral term for a niece or nephew is “nibling”
lBkK TIL that during the siege of Jerusalem in 1917, the British started to airdrop cigarettes filled with large doses of Opium, hoping that the Ottomans would be too stoned to fight. It worked.
dDkwQ TIL that autocomplete for keyboards was first developed in the 1950s for Chinese typewriters, which required users to navigate through thousands of logographic characters, thus helping people type faster without the need to search for each character.
KY8X6 TIL that "Smells like Teen Spirit" by Nirvana was named after a deodorant for teen girls