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TIL that after 10 years of consecutive employment every Australian is entitled to 2 months of paid vacation time

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X6KE TIL there is more gold in the Earth than silver, mercury, iodine, and uranium combined.
b9kMp TIL That the famous deaf-blind writer Hellen Keller received a gift from a Japanese police officer who gave her an Akita dog named Kamikaze-Go as a present. After the dog's death Japan’s government gifted another Akita, making her the first person to bring the dog breed to the U.S. In 1948
R7oDl TIL Venice does not have a complete modern sewage system, meaning its canals are also its sewer system.
W7JLX TIL slaves brought to America on 1859 in the Clotilda founded after the Civil War the city of Africatown, Alabama, retaining their West African culture until the 1950s
gW7A TIL That Mary Jane was killed by Spiderman’s radioactive semen.