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TIL the Holidays with Pay Act 1938 took trade unionists, politicians and ordinary Britons 20 years of advocacy before the legislation was passed

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6ER5X TIL male show dogs can't be fixed and a judge needs to feel his testicles to make sure they're present and are equal size. A male dog failing to show a healthy pair of testicles will be disqualified. Sometimes a dog's testicles retract during inspection and its handler must coax them back down.
QJvaa TIL at 17,207 acres (27 square miles) the Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport is larger than Manhattan & is the 2nd largest airport by land area in the US complete with its own ZIP code.
WkgJX TIL of a mystery soda vending machine that existed in Capitol Hill, Seattle. The machine appeared sometime in the 1990s and dispensed rare or discontinued drinks cans. It was unknown who filled it. It disappeared leaving a note, and its Facebook page featured photoshop images of it around the world.
R7yvQ TIL ancient remains of at least 15 humans were found in a chamber in a cave, 80 m from the entrance, only 25–50 cm at its narrowest, and at the bottom of a 12 m vertical drop, in complete darkness and with no evidence of any tools or fire. They were from the previously undiscovered Homo Naledi.
mx0vx TIL that the American-produced, 1964 stop-motion Christmas television classic "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" was filmed in Tokyo and voiced primarily by Canadian actors. It has aired at least annually in America since 1964, making it the longest continuously running Christmas TV special in history