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TIL it's debated in Australia whether national disability insurance should cover sex work. This has already been implemented in Denmark and the Netherlands.

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neEMr TIL of "Daughter from California syndrome", a phrase used in the medical profession to describe situation in which a long-absent family member arrives while a patient is dying to demand inappropriately aggressive care.
kOaNe TIL Korean women look for holes, locally known as Molka, in public (or private) restrooms and cover them with toilet paper since those holes usually contain spycams that record them.
9wBbG TIL A quarter of all known animal species are beetles.
R5oB7 TIL about San Miguel de Gualdape, a short-lived Spanish colony founded in 1526 somewhere in modern South Carolina or Georgia. The location had the first enslaved Africans in the modern United States, and also the first slave revolt. The fates of the Africans is lost to history.
Egy1w TIL that cotton candy was invented by a dentist