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

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WkNw8 TIL that the physical shape of the human ear selectively filters out frequencies outside of the human vocal range.
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R7KQj TIL in 2013 multiple gunmen shot up power transformers in Northern California and cut fiber optic cables, causing over $15 million in damage and outages. The gunmen were never caught.
a8nay TIL that a California court ruled that a man was not entitled to the $3 billion market value of his cells, which his doctor had secretly commercialized after removing his spleen.
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