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TIL that famous ring announcer Michael Buffer has earn over $400 million from his trademarked phrase “Let’s get ready to rumble!”

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GwYQ TIL a British IT worker threw out an old hard drive containing a few thousand bitcoin he mined when they were a novelty, prompting searches for the $9 million buried in a Welsh landfill
woj96 TIL about the Family Viewing Hour, a 1975 FCC policy that TV networks in the USA had to air "family-friendly" programming during the first hour of prime-time. The policy was abandoned in 1977 following a ruling by a federal court that it violated the First Amendment.
krxe TIL that ketchup is an example of a non-Newtonian liquid meaning it’s viscosity is not constant. This explains why it is hard to get out of the bottle on the first try, it thins the more is it messed with.
5BnD TIL in 1864, George Boole a Mathematician and Logician, walked two miles in the drenching rain and lectured wearing his wet clothes. He became ill, developing a severe cold and high fever.His wife believed that remedies should resemble their cause, so she poured water on him, he died that year at 49
vPdXD TIL the Death Valley Germans were referenced in Cars (2006)