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TIL that employers in 31 of 50 United States aren't required to allow their employees to take breaks.

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RkE7 TIL that the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami in Japan was so powerful that it actually moved the entire island of Honshu 8 feet east and tilted the Earth’s axis between 4 and 10 inches
x9Vb TIL that Pinball was removed from Windows because it had a rounding error in the 64 bit version of XP. The code was written by an outside company and it had no comments whatsoever, so they decided to scrap it instead of spending time trying to figure out how the code worked.
1Mv7 TIL that. in the US, the “we’ll be back after these messages” often seen during kid shows of the ‘70s, '80s, and '90s were mandated by the FCC to help children differentiate between the TV show and commercials.
b91Qj TIL All the Pandas in the world belong to China (even unborn ones)
oRVp8 TIL George Foreman won an Olympic Gold Medal after boxing for only a year and a half and with only 20 amateur fights