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TIL full-time stagehands, the people responsible for moving and setting up equipment, at Carnegie Hall earn over $400,000 a year.

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VLD TIL the best selling DVD of all time is Finding Nemo
rDMo TIL The Atari 2600 was so popular, it was not discontinued until 1992 - years after its own successors, the 5200 and the 7800, died off. Its 15 year official lifespan is the longest of any console.
oROmr TIL that Marc Summers, host of Nickelodeon’ Double Dare, suffered with OCD (and has had a generally wild life)
kOw84 TIL of John Stevens Henslow, a British priest, botanist and geologist, who, in 1831, was offered a place aboard a voyage to survey South America. After his wife dissuaded him from accepting, Henslow wrote to the captain, telling him to offer his place on the HMS Beagle to his protégé, Charles Darwin
oB8oL TIL your lamp that clicks twice to turn on/off is a 3-stage lamp. If you use the proper bulb, it actually has a low, medium, and high setting. But since most lightbulbs aren't that fancy, they only work on in the medium and high setting, meaning you'll have to click twice to turn it on and off.