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TIL that people who regularly work 11 hours a day or more are 67% more likely to suffer a premature heart disease.

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b9GN TIL that the Haskell opera house & Library straddles the border of the US and Canada. The audience sits in the US to watch a show on a stage which is actually in Canada. The front door is in the US and the books are in Canada.
9wKY7 TIL Genghis Khan adopted a policy of strategic marriages. He would marry off a daughter to the king of an allied nation. The king's other wives were dismissed. Then he would assign his new son-in-law to military duty in the Mongol wars, while the daughter took over the rule of the kingdom.
9wBn6 TIL Pre-sliced bread was briefly banned for the war effort in 1943 to try to conserve wax paper, as sliced bread dried-out quicker and needed heavier wrapping.
Mn0B TIL the State of Louisiana sentences people to 13-20 years of Hard Labor for only nonviolent drug possession charges
Dvlj TIL the first television broadcast from the United States to Japan via satellite was news of the Kennedy Assassination.