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TIL that Mall Santas generally earn between $100 and $200 per hour during the holiday season, and can earn as much as $300 an hour if they are willing to work on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day

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ADy6a TIL There were approximately 33,000 Japanese Americans who served in the US military in World War 2.
e0ayb TIL Jerry Springer resigned from the Cincinnati City Council in 1974 after the bad check he wrote for a prostitute was found by police racked up in the massage parlor’s wall with “For Services Rendered” written in the memo. Springer won the seat back in 1975 by a landslide and became mayor in 1977.
BaPr TIL the last man executed by electric chair in the U.S. was removed from the death penalty on appeal. Thinking this made him immune, he boasted of his crimes, supplying evidence which allowed him to be re-convicted and then executed.
GADGj TIL that China alone accounts for over 90% of global spinach production
LQ5M0 TIL that the Great Green Wall is an ambitious ecological project in Africa aimed at combating desertification and improving livelihoods for millions of people.