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TIL 90% of the top occupations in the U.S. pay only between 18k-34k on average

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6ERM8 TIL The Glorious Revolution, was the November 1688 deposition and replacement of James II and VII as ruler of England, Scotland and Ireland by his daughter Mary II and his Dutch nephew and Mary's husband, William III of Orange. This was also when gin (jenever) was introduced in England.
awQwA TIL: Singer-songwriter James Blunt was a former reconnaissance officer in the Life Guards regiment of the British Army and served under NATO during the 1999 Kosovo War. He was also a pallbearer at the funeral of Queen Mother.
kZ9B TIL Benjamin Franklin did not attend college. His formal education ended at 10 due to family financial issues and he left school to work in his fathers candle shop. By the age of 12 he was apprenticed to a printer.
Qx5a TIL Gary Lineker once said “Football is a simple game. Twenty-two men chase a ball for 90 minutes and at the end, the Germans always win.”
yowJ TIL there is a restaurant in Las Vegas that has a four story high wine tower inspired by Mission Impossible and the waiters fly around it suspended by wires