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TIL that the median salary in Denmark in 2022 were $5,900 a month or $37 an hour

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PYbQJ TIL MAD Magazine credited Leonardo da Vinci for creative input in one of their issues. His check is still waiting in the MAD offices for him to pick it up
OwR1 TIL that even after extinction, the Dodo is still the national animal of Mauritius.
6EBKY TIL about the origin of the term “decimation”. It was a punishment in the Roman Army where soldiers were spilt into groups of 10, straws were drawn and whoever drew the short straw was clubbed, stabbed or stoned to death by the remaining 9. The first recorded instance of this is from 478 BC.
Z8j4p TIL When Nintendo was formed, there were only 38 US states in the Union. The company that would go on to bring us Super Mario and Pokémon was formed in September of 1889.