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TIL by 2020 there will be an estimated 123mil high-paying jobs in America, but only 50 mil Americans will be qualified for these jobs.

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eprw5 TIL the worlds fastest ant is the Sarah’s Silver Ant and can run at 3.7kmph which is faster than most humans walk! If it were human sized it would do 300m/s
4L46 TIL that Dr Catherine Hamlin and her husband answered an ad in 1958 for an obstetrician and gynaecologist to set up a midwifery school in Ethiopia. She still works there today at the age of 89. Happy International Women’s Day!
WVmo TIL That the German Shepherd was named Alsatian becuase it was thought the word German might harm the breed after the World Wars.
kA4m TIL that peregrine falcons have a notch in their beak that’s made for severing the spinal cord in its prey.
LQoJQ TIL Gen. Douglas McArthur had a 16 year old Filipina Concubine