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TIL The United States is the only country in the world where property owners own the rights to the underground resources beneath their property

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Xnm8 TIL that according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics in 2012 there were 115,000 janitors, 83,000 bartenders, 323,000 restaurant servers, and 80,000 heavy-duty truck drivers with bachelor’s degrees – a number exceeding that of uniformed personnel in the U.S. Army.
x6MX7 TIL the last known writing in Egyptian Hieroglyphs is a piece of graffiti on a temple wall. Helpfully, the graffiti includes an exact date (Aug 24, 394 AD) and its author was likely the last person in the world able to read or write hieroglyphs until the Rosetta Stone was deciphered in the 1820s.
p8DrQ TIL about denkiburo - electrified bathtubs found at some Japanese bathhouses
KYwBJ TIL the Smithsonian has a set of 670 precise tuning forks covering 16 to 4,096 Hz
60VQ TIL that German soccer player Mesut Ozil donated his €300,000 World Cup victory bonus to pay for surgeries for 23 children in Brazil.