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TIL In Czech Republic, women are entitled to up to 4 years of paid maternity leave, increasing to 7 years if the child is disabled.

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wBEM TIL Norway has underwater drones which fire lasers in order to kill lice on salmon
NXwbP TIL that I learned that "Passamaquoddy" is not just a fictional town from the movie "Pete's Dragon", but also the name Native American/First Nations people who live in northeastern North America.
GAKlG TIL Americans pronounce Bologna as Baloney
DDZj TIL One man single handedly converted a washed out land into a 1,360 acre forest. The forest is now home to tigers & rhinoceros too
BgB1r TIL the first mention of a double-nosed dog in the Amazon jungle was in 1913 by Percy Fawcet after an expedition there. But no one believed him & the dog remained a cryptozoological beast until the 2000s when John Blashford-Snell returned with photo evidence of the Double-Nosed Andean Tiger Hound.