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TIL that the average private school teacher makes $14,000 less per year than the average public school teacher

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D1K5v TIL that natives used to cure leather with animal brains to make it stay soft even after it gets wet.
BrB7L TIL that in 1957, 69% of Americans polled by Gallop reported that religion was increasing in influence; by the late 1960s the figure was less than 20%.
kmxg TIL that they did not actually have the right to use the music in the background of the infamous “you wouldn’t steal a car” anti piracy warning
OoLaa TIL Boeing employees were exhausted, either deliberately or unconsciously circumventing established processes and one even revealed of being hesitant to put his family on Boeing plane during the production of 737 max
lJnA TIL A cult leader once gave 600 acres of land to God but the State of Pennsylvania took possession and sold it because the Almighty didn’t pay His taxes.