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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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xPB7 TIL that Sergeant Stubby was the only war dog to be promoted to sergeant through combat in WWI. He saved his regiment from surprise mustard gas attacks, found and comforted the wounded, and even once caught a German spy by the seat of his pants, holding him there until American Soldiers found him
DnBp TIL In 1916 a US amendment was proposed to put all acts of war to a national vote. If you voted yes you would have to register as a volunter for service in the United States Army
xV7v1 TIL: Supreme Court Justice Lewis Powell wrote a secret memo detailing the duty of judges to protect American business executives. "One does not exaggerate to say that, in terms of political influence that the American business executive is truly the “forgotten man.”
m1dVp TIL that horizontal collaboration—French women sleeping with German occupiers—was a major contributor to young men joining the French Resistance
oJgL TIL In the X-men films, camera tricks are used to make Hugh Jackman appear shorter because at 6'2 he is almost a foot taller than Wolverine is said to be in the comics… 5'3.