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TIL Many states legally require employers to give employees time off to vote.

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N7aOJ TIL about the Belga, Belgium's parallel currency unit worth 5 Belgian Francs, introduced in 1927 to prevent confusion with the French Franc following the dissolution of the Latin Economic Union and the end of Napoleon III's monetary union.
R7je7 TIL In 1984, an anti-cruise missile activist poured red paint on the only good copy of the Canadian Constitution. He was subsequently sentenced to 89 days in weekend jail.
gr0n8 TIL bees can recognize human faces. Despite their tiny brains, bees can remember and recognize human faces using a similar process to humans, which helps them identify friends and foes.
mxyrY TIL Soviet gymnast Elena Mukhina, widely touted as the next great gymnastics star until 1979. Her coach rushed her recovery from an injury and pressured her to perform a dangerous move (the Thomas salto), which caused her to break her neck, leaving her a lifelong quadriplegic. She died at 46 in 2006
o10W TIL of Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, who was the president of a Tibetan Buddhist region of West Russia about the size of Austria, and is also the president of the World Chess Organization. He can also speak 6 languages.