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TIL: Earning four times as much money has about the same impact on happiness as it being a weekend.

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d9MK TIL that during a US nuclear test, a 2000 lb steel plate was blasted off the top of a test shaft at a speed of 41 miles/second. That is six times escape velocity.
OoPk6 TIL the Salem witch trials were started by a group of girls age 9-20 who were told tales by a slave. The main perpetrator Elizabeth Hubbard was known for being manipulative, throwing temper tantrums, and having a wild imagination. Hubbard accused 40 people and 15 died as a result.
RGma TIL rocker Keith Moon was so destructive to hotel property that once he insisted that the limo return to the hotel because he forgot something. He then went up to his room and tossed the television into the swimming pool below. When he got back into the limo he said, “I nearly forgot.”
xVZPw TIL from 1906 to 1980, New Hebrides (today Vanuatu) was a French-British condominum, and both powers had separate administrations and courts. Colonists could choose to be under which law they wanted to live while natives were tried in their own laws
kEKm TIL Apollo Mission astronauts have nearly five times higher mortality from cardiovascular disease than other astronauts due to exposure to deep-space radiation.