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TIL in Norway everyone’s salary and tax is publicly available online.

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nD87 TIL that if you have blue eyes, you may be related to every other blue-eyed person in the world. Researchers in Denmark have found that every person with blue eyes descends from just one “founder,” an ancestor whose genes mutated 6,000 to 10,000 years ago. Before then, everyone had brown eyes.
087M TIL Jennifer Love Hewitt doesn’t have even a single film of hers rated fresh on rotten tomatoes.
6p1w TIL a police commissioner who claimed he had spent hours researching sticky bombs distributed printouts about them. All of the information he gathered came from the Terraria Wiki.
W5BN TIL that Arthur is the second-longest running animated series in the U.S. behind The Simpsons
GAeyG TIL of the Socorro springsnail. This critically endangered snail only remains in a single New Mexico spring, which is on private property; since the owner has denied access since 1995, the current population and status of the species is unknown.