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TIL that a danish garbage collector works 21 hours a week and make $80,000 a year.

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QNE7d TIL Freshwater snails are one of the world's most deadly animals because they transmit the organism that causes schistosomiasis (aka bilharzia), which is, in and of itself, one of the most deadly parasites on the planet! Nearly 230m people were infected in 2014 and there are~200,000 deaths annually.
QNrBE Today I learned about swing Band Leader Ivy Benson who was as famous in the 1940s as Glenn Miller, yet her name has not lived on in the public consciousness.
wLQlJ TIL in his youth economist John Law fought a sword duel over the affections of a woman. Law killed his opponent, and was found guilty of murder and sentenced to death. The sentence was later commuted to a fine. After an appeal by the victim’s brother he was imprisoned, but Law escaped to Amsterdam.
6EO78 TIL Sal Khan (founder of Khan Academy) was the lead singer of a death metal band
Y78RP TIL that the first aircraft autopilot was developed in 1912. The autopilot connected a gyroscopic heading indicator and attitude indicator to hydraulically operated elevators and rudder. It permitted the aircraft to fly straight and level on a compass course without a pilot's attention