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TIL that a Japanese company gave its non-smoking employees 6 extra vacation days

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v1Q58 TIL about Luis Pardo Villalón, the chilean Navy officer who commanded the rescue of the Endurance crew. He had never sailed to Antarctica before, but the chilean government sent him aboard the Yelcho, to rescue the 22 stranded men on Elephant Island, after Ernest Shackleton made it to land.
ep6oJ TIL that before he was an actor, Peter Dinklage was in a punk-funk-rap group called Whizzy. While playing at the famed CBGB nightclub, he was accidentally kneed in the face so hard that he started bleeding on stage and now has a scar running from his neck to his eyebrow.
wLy1P TIL Weber Grills were invented by Weber Brothers Metal Works, which produced metal buoys for the Coast Guard. George Stephen cut a buoy in half and added legs, and the Weber Grill was born.
5Yr4R TIL: When city council denied a permit to build on empty lot, a London man applied for a permit for a tank. Thinking it was a water storage container, council approved. Instead the man bought a Russian T-34 tank, parked it on his property and pointed the gun towards the city planning office.
oB5oY TIL that the film Mask (1985) is actually based on the true story of Roy Lee "Rocky" Dennis, an American boy who had craniodiaphyseal dysplasia, an extremely rare sclerotic bone disorder occurring in approximately one in every 220 million births, with fewer than 20 recorded cases.