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TIL on average a bottle of domestic beer in a supermarket is ~333% more expensive in Australia than in Germany.

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EgrEo TIL that when women become pregnant, their periods stop temporarily.
rNNDw TIL that the freed Africans Americans who were resettled in Liberia ended up oppressing the native Liberians in the same way that they were mistreated in the USA, including by establishing plantations
Z8vxY TIL hundreds of Canadian doctors asked for their own pay raises to be canceled. An open letter was signed by GPs, specialists, residents, and med students who asked for the money to be reallocated to others such as nurses.
yXdp TIL Wrongfully executed Timothy Evans had stated that a neighbor was responsible for the murders of his wife and child, when three years later it was discovered that he was indeed right.
rPYe TIL of “aerial reforestation” - a process whereby conical canisters which contain a seedling packed in soil and nutrients are dropped from a plane. They could drop as many as 100,000 saplings in a single flight. The system could plant as many as a million trees in one day.