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TIL that Australia still allows child labor

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6awZ TIL that Earl Wild, the first person to play the piano on US television was also the first to stream a performance on the Internet 58 year later
0wORj TIL the "Chameleon Effect" is how people subconsciously copy other people. This mainly includes accents, facial mannerisms, and vocal inflections. People who can hear and separate musical notes are more susceptible to the Chameleon Effect, they also come across as more empathetic or nice to others.
BrPKD TIL that, in 2014, OkCupid admitted experimenting on its users. Most notably, they ran experiments where they told people who were in fact bad matches that they were good matches, and vice versa. They found people talked more when OkCupid "matched" them and less likely when OkC "mismatched" them.
OB4a TIL a caddie sued Michael Douglas for hitting him in the groin with a golf ball, resulting in the caddie losing a testicle and his job.
RNbw TIL that on the first season of the US Kitchen Nightmares, every restaurant but two closed, including one where the chef committed suicide