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TIL that Mexicans have the highest average annual hours worked in the world

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YpZdd TIL that the largest cave in the world is Hang Soon Doong and is located in Vietnam and it could contain an entire city with 40-story skyscrapers and in contains a large underground forest that was able to grow and developed thanks to skylights created by the collapse of parts of its vault.
pYAZe TIL that singer Avril Lavigne was banned from performing in Malaysia in 2008 because her concert was deemed too sexy.However,the ban was lifted shortly after.
1aNwV TIL In the movie "Molly's Game" Michael Cera portrays an antagonist character who's actually Tobey Maguire (Spiderman) in the real story. The author of the book claims that he was an insufferable douche and one time even asked her to "bark like a seal" for a 1,000$ to entertain him and his buddies.
nwbr TIL all the McDonalds in Argentina were forced to sell the Big Mac at an artificially low price to hide inflation, and to manipulate the country’s performance on the Big Mac index
kJZjB TIL that in 1989, a group called "The Breeders" caused a medfly infestation in California to protest spraying of the insecticide Malathion, devastating crops and costing $60 million in eradication efforts. The state ceased this spraying in response.