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

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6ePJ TIL: The origin of saying “Bless you” after someone sneezes dates back to at least 77AD and may be due to (amongst other things) people originally believing that a person’s soul could be thrown from their body when they sneezed
e0rJ TIL Ayn Rand encouraged her followers to vote against Ronald Reagan because he wasn’t pro-choice
9Yx66 TIL a professor at Baylor University started the Black Gospel Music Restoration Project by collecting thousands of songs and photos from the 1940s to the 1980s, and these lost pieces of history are available online, free of charge.
X01DP TIL that the U.S. state with the highest STD rate is Mississippi, with a rate of 1,291.4 STD cases per 100,000 state residents.
loRdr TIL that in 1962 scientists at the University of Oklahoma decided to shoot an elephant up with LSD.