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

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VBm5k TIL About firedamp whistles, a device designed to detect flammable gases in a coal mine by blowing local air and a reference gas through whistles and listening for a "beat" caused by a slight difference in the frequency
QbBM TIL that Martin Van Buren, 8th president of the U.S., did not mention his wife of 12 years even once in his 800 page autobiography
KYLGG TIL Michael Kearney (who spoke his first word at four-months-old) completed his Bachelor's degree in anthropology in two years to become the youngest ever university graduate at the age of 10.
Y7ZEA TIL There are fake animal rescue videos, where people deliberately put pets into dangerous situations.
lovJN TIL That in 1962, a US spy plane pilot wandered off course and penetrated Soviet airspace, where he avoided intercept by Soviet MiGs, ran out of gas and glided back to Alaska. And oh -- this was right in the middle of the Cuban Missile Crisis.