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TIL Denmark has no legally set minimum wage and McDonald’s workers there make more than $15/hr.

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9Yw0p TIL of about the ancient sanction of Zaleucus: If someone proposes a change to the law that is rejected, that person gets strangled.
QvKk TIL that the CEO of In-N-Out Burger is 32 years old and worth 1.1 billion dollars
B6bW TIL: A gay waitress lied about a homophobic family on the news, then got caught when the family saw the news report
KYLZE TIL senior citizen Emerich Juettner eluded the US Secret Service for 10 years while he used just enough poorly created counterfeit $1 bills (one version misspelled Washington) to support himself & his dog. He only used fake $1 bills one at a time & never to the same place twice. He'd serve 4 months.
d8dw7 TIL the breakup of Yugoslavia was arguably accelerated by a Serbian man who was injured while pleasuring himself with a glass bottle. When questioned by doctors, he blamed his injury on an attack by "Albanian separatists" and became a cause celebre for Serbian ultranationalists.