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TIL The Nazi rewards program, "Strength Through Joy", gave workers a shot at prizes like theatre trips, picnics, and cheap travel! It began after Hitler abolished unions, upped the max workweek to 72 hours, and outlawed going on strike, wage bargaining, or leaving work without permission.

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GAgw5 TIL that India's first representative at the Winter Olympics., in 1964, was Jeremy Bujakowski, an Lithuanian born skier of Polish descent who grew up in India (and was naturalized as an Indian citizen). He learned to ski in Boise, Idaho, USA.
VBn0 TIL Finland has a heavy metal band for children that dresses up like dinosaurs
OGLXg Today I learned that in 1962 a man bought a deserted island in the Seychelles and planted 16000 trees, reintroduced 120 giant turtles and hundreds of birds turning the island into a protected national park
0b6N TIL limpet teeth are the strongest known biological material.
6EXJ TIL the computer was not invented in the 1940’s. In the 1830’s Charles Babbage designed a mechanical, steam powered beast with a CPU, RAM, even a printer, that could do most of the things early electronic computers could. It was never built.