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TIL the largest employer of musicians in the world is the US Army

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DbLv TIL that Cuba has an active maximum wage law, where individuals cannot earn more than 20 U.S. dollars per month
N7g4P TIL Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet pledged their financial support the last living Titanic survivor, Millvinia Dean, after it was reported that she’d been forced to sell her mementos from the wreck to pay for nursing home bills.
n5RG TIL there’s a giant underground cavern in Japan filled with distilled water and light sensors, used to detect subatomic particles called neutrinos.
6EjnZ TIL Owen Wilson attempted suicide in 2007 causing him to drop out from his role in the movie Tropic Thunder.
nW8Q7 TIL that in 2011, an entire country lost internet access for 12 hours after a 75-year-old woman accidentally broke a fiber-optic line with her shovel.