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TIL Adam Sandler Has Called Rob Schneider Every Week for the Last 30 Years

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p84D8 TIL that 39.5 percent of Japanese adults slept less than six hours a night making naps in public a social norm even to the point that napping during work is often seen as a subtle sign of diligence: You must be working yourself to exhaustion.
Y7VQr TIL The cute looking pygmy slow lorises are the only known venomous primate. Modified sweat glands near their elbows allow pygmy slow lorises to secrete a toxin. When they’re alarmed, they can lick these glands, spreading the toxin to their teeth, able to incapacitate predators as large as humans
P1EJV TIL in 2015 a US University suspended a Jewish student who had posted a Hindu Swastika on his residence hall's University board. He had learnt about the symbol on a spring break trip to India.
N7RrJ TIL that in 2019 most Americans surveyed thought that Arabic numerals should not be taught in schools.
M0Pa TIL that Irish writer George Bernard Shaw had a rotating office that he could turn to face the sun in the winter and give himself more shade in the summer.