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

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yoPM TIL That the US Department of Defense employs 1% of all Americans and is the world’s largest single employer
4XnaN TIL coffee cups and many other items with a "recycling" symbol can't actually be recycled (and what can be recycled varies depending on where you live)
grxBA TIL drinking less caffeine inevitably makes you more awake, because caffeine blocks the receptors in the brain that encourage you to sleep (adenosine receptors)
6RE7 TIL in the 1920s four pythons were shipped from India to the San Diego Zoo. Four live pigeons were included as food, but two survived and zoo keepers were so taken by them they bred them into species prized around the world.
b6MD7 TIL water exists on the sun