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TIL Japanese firm gives non-smokers extra six days holiday to compensate for cigarette breaks

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R76YQ TIL that 50 years ago a whale washed up an Oregon beach and died. To deal with the remains and the smell, officials decide to blow it up with half a ton of dynamite- the idea was it would disintegrate and scavengers would quickly dispose of the remains. That’s not what happened
Bx6L TIL there is a waterfall known as “The Devil’s Kettle” where the water vanishes in a pothole, people have thrown dyes, logs and other things into it and have been unable to find where it goes.
9wAwM TIL that In Australia, a crocodile believed to be "part-albino" and nicknamed by people in the area as "Michael Jackson", attacked and killed a man.
5bxD TIL One-third of the world cannot see the Milky Way
16odX TIL that the Magyarab people are a community living in Nubia, along the Nile in Sudan and Egypt, that have distant Hungarian ancestors who intermarried with locals in the 16th century.