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TIL since 2011 hourly labor costs in Mexico have been lower than China

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WkmrB TIL Elvis Presley was drafted into the U.S. Army. At the peak of his career, he received his draft notice for a two-year stint in the army. Fans sent tens of thousands of letters to the army asking for him to be spared, but Elvis refused to decline. He was sworn as an army private on March 24, 1958.
6jVX TIL 27% of Canadian university graduates do not have the basic level of literacy traditionally required to function in modern society.
QJLE9 TIL that the Higgs Boson's media nickname "The God Particle" came from physicist Leon Lederman. He wrote a book and wanted it titled "The Goddamn Particle", poking fun at how hard it was to find. The publishers changed the title to "The God Particle" and the nickname stuck.
Y8DP TIL: one of the top things people regret when they are dying is that they worked too hard.
v1wGr TIL Elvis Presley's granddaughter is married to the Door Warrior from Mad Max: Fury Road