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TIL a Sweedish study concluded that the United States was one of the most racially tolerant countries in the world.

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0dPOM TIL the first actor to ever earn a $1 million salary for a single film is Elizabeth Taylor for Cleopatra (1963). She also secured 10% of the gross profits & add-ons if the filming ran over, which it did. In total, she earned around $7 million for the movie ($69 million in 2023 money).
l7n1 TIL that Robert Chesebrough, the inventor of Vaseline lived to the age of 96, he attributed his longevity to the spoonful of Vaseline that he ate every day.
G9eQ TIL The transliteration of the name “Jesus” from Hebrew to English is “Joshua”. “Jesus” is the English derivative of Jesus’ Greek name. Mary would have called her son “Joshua”.
4X9rX TIL that there are active subglacial tidal lakes under the ice in Antarctica.
Kk84 TIL that at least 60 wealthy Osage Indians where murdered in the 1920s for the oil rich land they owned.