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TIL if you are a worker in Norway and you become unemployed, you will receive 87.6% of your previous salaries for 500 days

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GAD85 TIL Harrison Ford has only played the villain once in his 50+ year film career: the thriller "What Lies Beneath" released in 2000, co-starring Michelle Pfeiffer.
5YVBP TIL that there are about three million shipwrecks lying on the ocean floor.
grL1W TIL that researchers have studied gambling behavior in monkeys to understand human risk-taking. Capuchin monkeys were given tokens to "bet" on a gamble with varying odds of winning. The monkeys showed similar behaviors to humans, suggesting an an evolutionary basis for gambling tendencies.
J4g4 TIL A professinal linguist in Native American languages was asked to invent Klingon for Star Trek. He speaks Klingon, but notes that others have attained greater fluency
WkbyN TIL in 1919, marines killed Charlemange Péralte, who led a resistance against the US occupation of Haiti. Troops distributed a photo of his strung-up carcass to discourage rebels, but it backfired. He looked crucified, turning him into an icon & a martyr. He was even put on Haitian coins in the 90s