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

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4bmo TIL US and European laws say travelers must be compensated if their flight is canceled or severely delayed, but only few of the eligible travelers try to claim their cash
GYG7N TIL, the Pacific Northwest is woefully unprepared for an earthquake and subsequent tsunami that would follow a quake in the Cascadia Subduction zone. The average time elapsed between quakes is 243 years. We are at currently at year 315 since the last quake. Everything west of I5 will be gone.
a8B79 TIL that squirting is MOSTLY just urine. A 2015 study found that all their participants showed noticeable bladder filling before squirting through ultrasonographic bladder monitoring, and then demonstrated that their bladders were emptied post-squirting.
NAjQ TIL A decade before the SR-71 first flew, the Military had a Mach 4.3 capable Ramjet created to test its own air defenses. It was so effective, it was cancelled to avoid embarrassing the military’s own air defenses any further. The man who designed it went on to create the SR-71 spyplane.
JORQ TIL The Victorian Government in Australia spent $5.7 Billion on a seawater desalination plant. That plant is complete and in “Standby Mode”, costing $1.8 Million per day to produce NO clean water.