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TIL the minimum wage in Australia is almost $16/hour

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e0rBg TIL that U.S. area codes were influenced by the rotary dial, where smaller numbers are dialed faster than longer ones. The first digit could not be one or zero, but the second had to be one or zero. Therefore, the most quickly dialed code was 212; the slowest was 909. This system existed until 1995.
rRRDM TIL that manufacturing is cheaper in China because of subsidies - energy, land and raw material subsidies, low cost loans at both state and federal levels and not because of low labor costs or scale (SEA and SA are cheaper)
GAXE7 TIL that the 1997 movie Batman & Robin was about a (now canceled) sequel called Batman Unchained and was originally planned to have Courtney Love or Madonna to play Harley Quinn in her live-action debut.
KPRQ TIL a school was locked down and a student was arrested when the secretary rang a student who’s voicemail greeting was the “Fresh Prince of Bel Air” theme song and she misheard “shooting people out side of school”
78rp7 TIL the Ottoman Sultan Abdul Hamid II was obsessed with the fear that the Japanese Meiji Emperor would convert to Islam and supplant him as Caliph