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TIL that NFL cheerleaders make between $75-100 per game and $50 for special appearances, but around $3k a year

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yQvW8 TIL a $40M lottery winner in China wore a monkey costume to hide his identity. Apparently this has become a trend for many lottery winners in China from ninjas to Baymax from Big Hero 6.
epZmg TIL since its invention in 1959, the MOSFET transistor has become the most produced artificial object in history with over 13 sextillion manufactured
GYb8G Today I learned that there was a species of humans that were extremely short, named Homo floresiensis, and nicknamed 'hobbit'. They were found on the island of Flores, Indonesia, and the remains of a skeleton found tell us that they were around 1.1m tall.
M7mbB TIL the original cut of the 1979 song "Gangsters" by The Specials had such a strong bass that it blew the needle from the record's grooves
wLZ8 TIL: women started shaving their legs during WW2, not because it was “the norm” or for hygiene reasons, but because of a nylon shortage.