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TIL John Madden receives $2-3 million every year for lending his name to EA's Madden video game franchise

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e665 TIL for upon their death, survivors of the attack on the USS Arizona during Pearl Harbor may have their ashes placed within the ship, among their fallen comrades.
x65bw TIL microwave technology has barely evolved in the past few decades, and most countertop microwaves sold in the US are manufactured by just one company, Midea.
xvZg TIL that Thor’s hammer was intended to have a much longer handle and be wielded two-handed. While it was being forged, Loki interrupted the dwarf manning the bellows, resulting in the hammer’s defect.
9YlYB TIL that some poison dart frogs secrete a painkiller called epibatidine. Epibatidine is 200x more potent than morphine and is nonaddictive, but has a therapeutic dose that is dangerously close to its lethal dose
pnEZ TIL that E.T. is from the Star Wars Universe