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TIL that the minimum wage in Australia varies by age and profession

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wojYJ TIL that ELVES are a rare type of red lightning that involves red flashes with a radius of 350 km (220 mi) which only last for 0.001 second. They form when an electromagnetic pulse shoots upward and causes the nitrogen molecules to glow scarlet.
D1PkJ TIL the Red Cross took in $500 million to rebuild Haiti and only built SIX houses.
KOANJ TIL the Polish Beer-Lovers' Party, a satirical political party, won 16 seats in Poland's lower house in the 1991 election. The party soon split into Large Beer and Small Beer factions, despite their founder's claims that "beer is neither light nor dark, it is tasty". The party eventually dissolved.
VM8R0 TIL that Iceland sits atop the North-Atlantic ridge, splitting the island across both the North American and Eurasian plates.
Obme TIL Alan Greenspan admitted he was wrong about unregulated financial markets