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TIL In Japan, by law, a workday becomes an additional holiday, also known as a "citizen's holiday," if the workday falls between two holidays.

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9XnX TIL that the day of the 1966 World Cup final, the Daily Mail newspaper wrote that “West Germany may beat us [England] at our national sport today, but that would be only fair. We beat them twice at theirs.” England won 4-2, its only World Cup victory.
kJJ0g TIL Only 8 percent of tariffs on aluminum for cans went to the government. The rest was pocketed by the aluminum manufacturers.
XEVZE TIL that before becoming president of the American Pediatric Society Saul Krugman experimented on mentally disabled children by purposefully infecting them with Hepatitis
4kAMJ TIL Women’s shirt buttons are on the left-hand side because wealthy women used to be dressed by their maids and it was easier to access.
4LD6 TIL Franklin W. Dixon, author of The Hardy Boys, DOESN’T EXIST. It’s just a nom de plume given to various ghostwriters.