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

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8eQ8X TIL that back in 2013, Xerox had scanners that would randomly change numbers after scanning a document.
w6QW TIL the dark history of bananas. In an effort to preserve “United Fruit Company’s” monopoly on bananas, the U.S. Government removed the democratically elected president of Guatemala in secret by faking a radio station that reported a fake military invasion of Guatemala.
Y7G1v TIL that over 50% of all suicides are associated with alcohol/other drug dependences
4Qxw TIL that the Vatican broadcast its public approval of Pokémon in April 2001, claiming that the game was based on “intense ties of friendship” and lacked “any harmful moral side effects.”
p8gdO TIL the smallest state forest in New York measures 348 square feet and contains the stump of only a single tree that was cut down in 2015.