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TIL the Internal Revenue Service in the US assumes that restaurant workers are tipped 8%

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X0VlD TIL all residents of Chile's permanent Antarctic settlement, Villa Las Estrellas, are required to have their appendixes removed as a safety precaution because of the limited availability of medical services on the icy continent.
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