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TIL At Semco, a successful Brazilian company, the employees vote their superiors and decide about their wages and working times. There is almost no hierarchy, no business plans, no HR management. It’s called the seven day weekend.

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p89LO TIL The backstory of Casper the Friendly Ghost is that he was a young adolescent who went sledding all day and died of pneumonia.
LkX5V TIL it is estimated 70% of children with an egg allergy will outgrow it by age sixteen.
0wKPj TIL that Yuri Kondratyuk, Soviet pioneer of astronautics, while working in Siberia, built an enormous wooden grain elevator with a capacity of 13 000 tons without using any nails. Due to using such an unusual construction, he was arrested in suspicion of sabotage. The elevator stood till the 90s.
NXLAJ TIL Modern broiler chickens have been bred to get so heavy so quickly it can lead to bone deformities
XEJWR TIL: That John Wilkes Booth was a well-known A-list actor, considered equivalent in status to Leonardo DiCaprio. He was a heartthrob and named “Sexiest Man Alive”