TIL employers in Idaho aren’t required to give rest or meal breaks, only have to pay tipped employees $3.35/hour, and only have to pay workers under 20 $4.25/hour
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Idaho Department of Labor
The Idaho Department of Labor connects job seekers with employment opportunities, supports workers through career and life transitions, and administers state labor laws.
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TIL that it was once believed that pulling up a Mandrake would cause you to be condemned to Hell and so animals were tied to the root instead to pull the root out of the ground
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Mandrake
plant root
TIL that Neil Armstrong manually landed on the moon instead of using the computer's autopilot, and managed to do so with under a minute of fuel left...
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Submitted July 13, 2024 at 08:36AM by ben10boi1
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Apollo 11
Apollo 11 (July 16–24, 1969) was the American spaceflight that first landed humans on the Moon. Commander Neil Armstrong and Lunar Module Pilot Buzz Aldrin landed the Apollo Lunar Module Eagle on July 20, 1969, at 20:17 UTC, and Armstrong became the first…
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TIL An art professor at Syracuse University grafted a single tree that grows forty different types of stone fruit including peaches, plums, apricots, nectarines, cherries, and almonds. There are now a handful of these trees in different cities around the US.
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TIL In 1997, a 47-year-old man from Houston, Texas, decided to make it his life's mission to visit every Starbucks location in the world. By 2019, he had already visited 15,000 Starbucks shops and spent at least $150,000 on the hobby.
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TODAY.com
This man has spent $150,000 trying to visit every Starbucks in the world
His goal is to visit every company-owned Starbucks in the world before he dies.
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TIL there are 17 Presidents of the United States of America that served the country without a Vice President.
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Submitted July 13, 2024 at 10:04PM by node0ne
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TIL that Smedley Butler is the last person to have been awarded the Medal of Honor twice
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Smedley Butler
Major General Smedley Darlington Butler (July 30, 1881 – June 21, 1940), nicknamed the Maverick Marine, was a senior United States Marine Corps officer. During his 34-year career, he fought in the Philippine–American War, the Boxer Rebellion, the Mexican…
TIL that Connecticut banned the use of any contraception for married couples until 1965
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Submitted July 14, 2024 at 03:38AM by Much_Development8
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LII / Legal Information Institute
Griswold v. Connecticut (1965)
TIL that in 1726 one of King George I’s surgeons was duped into believing a woman had given birth to rabbits. After losing his position after the hoax was exposed, he refused to eat rabbit for the rest of his life
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Nathaniel St André - Wikipedia
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TIL In 1963 Sean Connery, filming From Russia with Love in Italy, played roullete at the casino in Saint-Vincent. He won the equivalent of $200,000 after betting on 17, 3 times consecutively. Odds being 1:50653
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Roulette 17
Sean Connery : Roulette Win on 17 - Roulette17
Sean Connery. He liked 17. He loved the number 17. Well, it paid off for him once in a big way.
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TIL the Frozen Food Aisle was created as a result of Clarence Birdseye learning how to flash freeze fish from the Inuits in the 1920s
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Submitted July 14, 2024 at 01:50AM by Olshansk
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Everything Everywhere
How Clarence Birdseye Created the Frozen Food Aisle
TIL in a family with twelve children, six of the boys were diagnosed with schizophrenia and were later found to possess a genetic mutation that is so vital to brain function that it could help researchers understand how schizophrenia works.
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Submitted July 14, 2024 at 07:59AM by tyrion2024
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NPR
In 'Hidden Valley Road,' A Family's Journey Helps Shift The Science Of Mental Illness
Over the years, six of the Galvins' 12 children were diagnosed with schizophrenia. Robert Kolker, who has a new book on the family, says "there is a lot of hope and inspiration in this story."
TIL that Abraham Lincoln founded the US Secret Service hours before being assassinated
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Submitted July 14, 2024 at 09:00AM by Zemvos
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United States Secret Service
U.S. Federal Law Enforncement Agency under the United States Department of Homeland Security
TIL that when French forces led by King Francis I attacked Arles in southern France in 1536, the word "grenade" was first used. Firepots, kegs, jars, and glass globes were used to make the first grenades. The Germans quickly began using two grenade variants (stick and egg).
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National WWI Museum and Memorial
Grenades
In World War I, hand grenades were also known as “hand bombs.” The general philosophy for their use in the fighting armies was that grenades could kill the enemy underground or behind cover.
TIL That Spider-Man (2002) had footage made just for the trailer that involved escaping bank robbers in a helicopter getting caught in a giant web between the Twin Towers. However after 9/11, the studio pulled it from theaters.
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Trailer (promotion)
advertisement for a feature film
TIL about Georg Elser, who built a time bomb from clock parts and blasting caps, and missed killing Adolf Hitler by thirteen minutes
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Georg Elser
German opponent of Nazism, planned and carried out an assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler on 8 November 1939
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Today I learned about “blading”. WWE wrestlers would cut themselves while on the ground to make fake injuries appear real.
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Blading (professional wrestling)
practice of intentionally cutting oneself to provoke bleeding in professional wrestling
TIL Hard Rock Cafe's memorabilia collection began with a guitar from Eric Clapton, who was a regular at the first restaurant in London. It hang over his regular seat in order to lay claim to that spot. This prompted Pete Townshend to send a guitar with a note "Mine's as good as his! Love, Pete."
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Submitted July 14, 2024 at 12:13PM by tyrion2024
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Hard Rock Cafe
American chain of restaurants
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TIL - The man who unsuccessfully treated President Garfield after he was shot, Dr. Doctor Willard Bliss (First name Doctor), was expelled from the Washington DC Medical Society for his advocacy of homeopathy and his refusal to support the society's segregation of black doctors.
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Who's Who | American Experience | PBS
Meet the central characters of Murder of a President.
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TIL indigenous Bolivians in the Andes have evolved to be arsenic resistant due the strong presence of AS3MT enzyme in their bodies that can metabolize the toxic element which is naturally found in drinking water.
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Submitted July 14, 2024 at 06:23PM by cerchier
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TIL that the average American buys 53 new pieces of clothes each year.
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Submitted July 14, 2024 at 07:58PM by diverareyouokay
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PIRG
How many clothes are too many?
Fast fashion is cheap and plentiful, and as a result, Americans are buying more clothes than ever.
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