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TIL France has a law requiring tech workers to ignore emails from their bosses after 6pm

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E6yx TIL Michael J. Fox negotiated the deal for Family Ties from a phone booth because he didn’t have a phone at home. He was told the network would need to call, and he said he was only home between the hours of four and five. He waited for the call, and fortunately he was there to answer it
GAxJ4 TIL higher educational level is significantly associated with smaller breast size preference
KOXEJ TIL that Angelina Jolie once tried to hire a hitman to kill her, because she felt that a murder would be easier on her family than her committing suicide. The would-be-hitman talked her out of it by asking her to wait a month.
X06dr TIL bezoars, a symptom of gastroparesis, had magical powers in the Harry Potter books but are big masses of food that can block the stomach
PYgaL TIL duct tape is a recognized & effective treatment for common warts like verrucas. In blind clinical trials duct tape removed warts completely 85% of the time. The success rate for cryogenic treatments was 60%.