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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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rRPZ4 TIL about Dumah, the angel of silence and of the stillness of death, in Rabbinical and Islamic literature. Dumah is described as the thousand-eyed angel of death, armed with a flaming sword, having authority over the wicked dead. Dumah is also the Aramaic word for silence.
Z8Rgp TIL that the river Wanganui in New Zealand was the first river in the world to have legal personhood. The river Ganges followed shortly after.
Rd11 TIL The CBS radio broadcast of H.G. Wells’ “War of the Worlds” did not actually cause mass hysteria or panic
LYQ9 TIL about Tilly Smith who, at age 10, helped save her family and hundreds of tourists in Thailand from the 2004 tsunami by recognizing warning signs of a tsunami that she had learned in her geography class two weeks earlier.
4kN4o TIL A baboon named Jack officially worked for South African railways (1881-1890) as a signalman and was paid twenty cents a day, and half a bottle of beer each week. Jack never made a single mistake in his entire Railway career.