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TIL that Florida will pay you to hunt snakes: No license or permit required

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ANxnw TIL the average high-school graduate will earn about $1 million less over their lifetime than the average four-year-college graduate.
kJ8YW TIL about the infamous Ash Wednesday bushfires that ravaged the states of South Australia and Victoria on the 16th of February 1983. The fires burnt 3 million acres in a single day claiming a total of 75 lives and a total insurance cost of $324 million. ($1.16 billion adjusted for inflation)
78QaL TIL much like fair trade exists, in Italy a grassroots movement markets products as anti-mafia protection money in the areas worst effected by it
R5kEw TIL that Adolf Hitler, Leon Trotsky, Joseph Tito, Sigmund Freud and Joseph Stalin were all living in the same section of Vienna during the year 1913
epM6E TIL that the idea Daylight Savings Time was first started all because a New Zealand entomologist wanted more daylight just to collect insects after his shift.