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TIL Henry Ford reduced the workday to 8 hours so he could add a third shift.

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Y7kZ TIL the Beastie Boys’ song “Fight For Your Right” was a parody making fun of drunk metal heads. Since the song only encouraged these people, the Beastie Boys stopped performing it live in ‘87.
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4RMJ TIL that a widow of a WWII veteran never learned the exact fate of her husband. After 68 years she found that he was not only buried in France. But that a town in France has been honoring him for the last 68 years.
5YDdr TIL in 2013 the city of Karlskoga made their policies gender neutral and switched their snow removal to clearing pedestrian paths first as women use these more. There was no cost to make this change and they saw a reduction in injuries and lost productivity due to injuries in slippery conditions.
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