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TIL That tap water is the most controlled "food" in germany and that it is so good that it beats mineral water in safety and even taste in many occasions.

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OoJge TIL that Lee Valley, a Canadian woodworking tool company, pays their employees on a “slope”. This means the top paid CEO cannot make more than 10 times the lowest paid employee. It also means the same CEO gets the same cut of their profit sharing as the lowest paid employee
VMGEB TIL before working on the Donald Duck comics and creating Scrooge McDuck. Carl Barks began his career at a racy man's magazine "Calagary Eye Opener" in the early 1920s. After retiring, he made tons of erotic artwork showing people with duck bills he jokingly referred to as the "Duck Syndrome".
y7WJ TIL that 300ft uphill from the highest water level reached by the 2011 Tōhoku tsunami sits a stone marker over a century old that warns, “Do not build your homes below this point!”
OoM41 TIL that tigers grow to be 150 times their birth weight by the time they’re adults compared to about 15 times for (most healthy) humans.
8mV8 TIL there is something called Genetic memory, an example are butterflies who remember their migration route even though it takes three generations to complete