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TIL in Australia you need to have completed a secondary education to become a prostitute

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OokO4 TIL about The Tomb of the Whipping, an etruscan tomb dated to approximately 490 BC and named after a fresco of two men who flog a woman in an erotic context
D1gMP TIL only 7 artists have sold over 250 million albums. 4 of them are British.
YpJ8Z TIL Albuterol, one of the oldest asthma medicines, typically costs $50 to $100 per inhaler in the United States, but it was less than $15 a decade ago, before it was repatented
P1bBO TIL Abraham Lincoln was the tallest ever US president at 6’4 / 193 cm
0dkVp TIL Uwe Hohn is the only person in history to throw a javelin 100m. His world record of 104.8m was declared an "Eternal World Record" as it will likely never be broken due to the IAAF redesigning the javelin in 1986 and resetting the WR to coincide with the change.