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

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Ooy06 TIL: Thor Christiansen, a Serial Killer who was only caught because his fifth would-be victim survived a shot to the head. She recognised him months later in a bar and reported him to police. Law enforcement then linked him with four other then-unsolved murders that had a similar MO.
YpRV7 TIL the Public Broadcast System started producing the kid's game show "Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?" in 1991 after a National Geographic survey showed 1/4 of Americans couldn't find the USSR or the Pacific Ocean on a world map
5VBQp TIL a wealthy building contractor who stormed the Bastille had miniature Bastilles made from the prison walls and sent all around France.
Zg7p TIL Only 0.03% of high school basketball players make it to the NBA, and only 0.003% play at that level for longer than 4 years.
751b TIL in 1916, the German military conducted the Judenzählung (census of Jews). Designed to confirm accusations of lack of patriotism among German Jews, the census disproved the charges. In fact, A higher % of German Jews fought in WWI than of any other ethnic, religious or political group in Germany.