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TIL: In 2010 a Filipino mayor had giant statues of Mary and Jesus installed underwater to discourage the widespread use of cyanide and explosives for harvesting fish

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DLLJ TIL: The 23¢ gender pay gap is the difference between average earnings of all men and women working full-time. It doesn’t account for differences in occupations, positions, education, job tenure or hours worked. When such relevant factors are considered, the gap narrows to the point of vanishing.
W7peo TIL that the founder of Post Cereal (C.W. Post) spent time at the sanitarium run by Dr. John Kellogg (of Cornflake fame), and was inspired to make his first product (a cereal-based drink called Postum) because he hated the coffee there.
LkVP9 TIL that Don Rosa (Scrooge McDuck comic book author and illustrator) is almost unknown in the US while having a near rockstar status in Europe
4DNJ TIL Artificial Intelligence has crushed all human records in the puzzle game “2048,” achieving a high score of 839,732 and beating the game in only 973 moves without using any undos
deGj TIL that the first settlers of Madagascar arrived from Indonesia several hundred years before the Bantu people of Southeastern Africa came to the island. As a result, the people of Madagascar have some physical features characteristic of Southeast Asians.