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TIL- The US actually has a shortage of qualified workers, not jobs.

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9YgpQ TIL that hyena poop is bright white due to the calcium in the large amount of bones they eat.
kO8Lm TIL: Of Sir Nicholas Windon, who saved 669 children in 1938 from German concentration camps. He kept his heroic deed a secret for 50 years, until his wife found a list of the children's names in their attic.
PYK9J TIL about Hemigrapsus estellinensis, an extinct species of crab that lived solely in a small saltwater spring in the Texas panhandle, 500 miles from the ocean. Probably a relic of the Pleistocene Era, the species was wiped out when the U.S. Army built a dike around the spring in 1964.
lgZa TIL Only five independent writing systems have been produced in the entire human history. Sumerian, Egyptian, Harappan, Mayan, and Chinese.
16bpW TIL of the courtesy flag - a small national maritime flag of the host country, flown by ships when entering a nation's territorial waters for the first time.