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TIL strippers make $78,000 a year — just as much as the average American attorney.

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8GQV TIL that blowing your nose when it’s stuffy generally makes things worse and prolongues your cold symptoms
xVVXD TIL despite repeated warnings by safety inspectors to install smoke alarms and sprinklers, the Haunted Castle at Six Flags Great Adventure had burned down in 1984 killing 8 teenagers.
dej8 TIL of a place in Norway where three time zones meet but it is illegal to circumambulate it.
ol0o TIL that in Luxembourg you must be trilingual (French, German, Luxembourgish) to graduate secondary school
B4VD TIL that in 1913 the first practical thermal solar ‘power plant’ was built in Egypt, it generated power using polished steel to focus the sunlight. Unfortunatly WW1 broke out and the power plant was abandoned due to conflict in the area and oil became a much more attractive energy source.