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TIL that Albuquerque, NM, started paying the homeless to clean up homeless camps around the city. The participants must work hard and on average five to six hours a day. In return they get $9 an hour plus a lunch of sandwiches, chips and granola bars

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6EpMl TIL that one of the rarest fish in the world is the Devils Hole Pupfish. They are only found in Devils Hole a water filled cavern in Nevada and are critically endangered with only 136 fish left in the wild.
PYMow TIL (Adjusted for inflation) Germany's military Budget in WW2 at its peak was smaller than the Current US Budget by about 33%.
loZY7 TIL of the bacteria Actimomyces Naeslundii, which resides in the human mouth and is heavily linked to tooth decay and periodontal disease.
XE1rk TIL the coastal hillsides of Japan have “tsunami stones” placed by previous generations. The stones indicate the high-water mark of previous tsunamis, with a warning to not build structures below. Heeding such warnings kept some places safe from damage during the 2011 tsunami.
d8LZE TIL when Thoreau lived “alone” at Walden Pond the woods around him were actually full of people, mostly former slaves and poor people who had been forced to live in the margins of society.