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TIL that Sweden pays high school students $187 per month to attend school.

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MvM7 TIL that there are no laws to prohibit professional sports leagues (I.e NFL, NBA, MLB, etc) from fixing their own games for increased revenue or any other purpose.
PY8aO TIL that when Apollo 11 was returning to Earth, the tracking station at Guam failed. To jury-rig repairs, the station director brought in his 10-year-old son, whose hands were small enough to get inside the faulty machinery and pack it full of grease.
kDPe TIL the German word, backpfeifengesicht, that roughly translates into meaning “A face that needs to be slapped (or punched).
g1X4 TIL Viggo Mortensen’s tattoos in Eastern Promises were so realistic that diners in a Russian restaurant in London fell silent out of fear during production.
GYDLg TIL Terry Davis, a schizophrenic programmer, spent 10 years of his life programming an operating system to talk to God