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TIL an American charity pays drug addicts $300 to get sterilized

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86YG TIL that in the United States, more money is stolen by employers from employees each year than is stolen in robberies, burglaries, larcenies and auto thefts COMBINED. The most common victims of wage theft are low wage workers.
5VLjr TIL of the SS Princess Sophia disaster. It ran aground on a reef in Alaska, but the weather was too rough to attempt a rescue or evacuation and it sank after 40 hours, killing everyone on board.
MLya TIL that the dispute over whether Newton or Leibniz invented calculus was decided by the Royal Society. Newton, as the President, appointed an impartial committee to decide the issue, which concluded in its official report that Newton was the inventor. Newton was the anonymous author of the report.
LQEyP TIL that in 2007 90% of Vietnam's connection to the internet was taken down after fishermen severed a submarine cable so they could sell the expensive materials they salvaged.
dD8n7 TIL the redwood forest that George Lucas filmed the Star Wars Endor scenes was completely harvested by a lumber company shortly after filming