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TIL Henry Ford started the concept of the “five-day workweek” in order to resolve the conflict between Christians and Jews over which day of Sabbath they should get off. He did this without reducing pay in order to prove that the same amount of production after six days can be met in five.

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PgPw TIL that of the 20 richest women in the world, all of them except #17, inherited their money from either their husband or their father.
AxKn TIL: theres a rare breed of chicken where the entire chicken is solid black. The meat, skin, organs, bones, bone marrow, tongue, and eyes are solid black. Each one cost $2500.
D4Dj TIL, That the Vatican admitted that Galileo was correct about Earth revolving around The Sun, in 1992
awEA9 TIL about Trimethylamine disorder that makes sufferers smell like rotting fish, rotting eggs, garbage, or urine.
v1y0L TIL that the Stanford Prison Experiment, the infamous experiment that many psychological works reference, was actually mostly a fraud and that many of the participants were faking.