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TIL McDonalds managers make more on average than teachers in most US states

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Wdm9 TIL Mattel once tried to sue Aqua over their song “Barbie Girl”. The judge literally told them to “chill”.
R70jj TIL that Josef Stalin was highly suspicious of doctors and had many Kremlin doctors arrested and tortured. So few doctors were available that after Stalin suffered a stroke, one imprisoned doctor claimed he was mid-interrogation when his captors suddenly started asking for medical advice instead.
oRL7 TIL the term “jaywalking” comes from the 1920s term “jay” which is slang for a person too stupid to get out of the way of cars or pedestrians
kOVrm TIL in a 2005 NASA study, scientists successfully revived bacteria that had been in a frozen pond in Alaska for 32,000 years. The microbes had been frozen since when woolly mammoths still roamed the Earth. Once the ice melted, they began swimming around, unaffected, and quickly became infectious.
e7PL TIL that a couple took in three orphans and used them to get Extreme Makeover: Home Edition to build them a new house. After the house was built, they kicked the orphans out.