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TIL: 2 countries have 0.00% unemployment

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AD9r7 TIL of the European custom of "telling the bees," wherein bees would be told of marriages, funerals, and other important events in their keepers' lives.
4kJO6 TIL that Elvis Presley’s cousin was paid $18,000 by the National Enquirer to secretly photograph Elvis’ corpse after his open-casket funeral. The issue went on to become the magazine’s best-selling edition ever, with a record 6.7 million copies sold.
BrWxW TIL The record for the most Grammy Awards won in a lifetime is held by Georg Solti,a Hungarian-British conductor who conducted the Chicago Symphony Orchestra for 22 years.He has won a total of 31 competitive Grammy Awards out of 74 nominations and was awarded a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.
16nXD TIL there are 2 different versions of Mexican Coke. No HFCS (only cane sugar) is exported to the US while Mexican domestic Coke has Splenda and/or cane sugar & HFCS
E1bD7 TIL that Ray Bradbury said that Fahrenheit 451 is not about government censorship but about social censorship where the people are the culprit.