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TIL the income gap between the US and Mexico is the largest of any two adjacent countries in the world

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MevXa TIL that every year, a regatta is held in Alice Springs. Due to the lack of water in Central Australia, contestants have to carry bottomless "boats" trough a dried-out river. When the river did carry water in 1993, the regatta became "the only regatta ever cancelled because of wet weather".
mxNaR TIL: the CEO of Charles Schwab often conducts interviews over breakfast, asking the cook ahead of time to slightly mess up the candidate's order. He judges their reaction as a test of their character.
GVyG TIL that there is a search engine called Shodan (after System Shock’s main antagonist) that can not only find things that Google can’t, but can be used to control or hack into systems such as traffic lights and security cameras.
LdeQ TIL that US Labeling Law allows any prepared food that is under 5 calories to be marked as 0 or “Calorie free”. A packet of Splenda and a can of Diet Coke both have 4 calories.
Rr01 TIL Female Komodo Dragons can enter isolated islands, lay fertilized eggs without male sperm through a process called ‘parthenogenesis,’ and then subsequent male and female hatchlings can go on to reproduce amongst each other to create entire new populations of Komodo dragons