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

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oRAM8 TIL the US Navy had no idea Cher would be wearing a racy outfit when they agreed to let her film “If I Could Turn Back Time” on the battleship Missouri. They didn’t see her now-iconic fishnet bodysuit until filming started. The crew’s crazy reaction is genuine.
J1yp8 TIL The NASA plans to decomission the ISS by 2031, via controlled re-entry on the pacific ocean
Y77yv TIL in the movie Fight Club there is a Starbucks coffee cup in almost every scene, Fincher’s use of the cups is closely linked to the films anti consumerism.
kxX5 TIL If Britain were a U.S. state, it would be the second-poorest, behind Alabama and before Mississippi
5GbR TIL in 2004, a woman engaged to a video game programmer anonymously vented her frustrations about her fiancé’s brutal 85-hour work week in a single blog post which eventually led to three class action lawsuits and a $14.9M judgement against the company he worked for.