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TIL the University of California pays its coaches more than they do their Nobel winning professors–on average, three times more than the system’s full-time Nobel laureates.

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PZnJ TIL that the metallic “coin smell” is not from the coins themselves, but that it is actually a body odor produced when you touch the coins
Rl5Q TIL Fidel Castro set up his own recreation of the Kennedy assassination using Cuban military snipers and concluded Oswald couldn’t have acted alone.
oRyoW TIL the Aztec word for "gold" is "poop of the gods"
E1dNd TIL After Reagan watched the movie WarGames he asked “Could something like this really happen?” to his chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and a week later the general returned and said “Mr. president, the problem is much worse than you think.”
LQQJp TIL the YMCA (Young Men's Christian Association) was founded under the principles of 'Muscular Christianity,' a Christian philosophy that ties physical strength and development with Christian spiritual growth. The creation of the modern Olympic Games was also influenced by this philosophy.