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TIL the male equivalent of a ballerina is a ballerino

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eDmJ TIL garbage collectors in NYC make $144,000/yr, up from $79,000 a decade ago.
XENwE TIL that Memorial Stadium at the University of Illinois has a bulldozer underneath the field. During construction of the stadium, torrential rains caused a bulldozer to sink into the mud. Being too expensive to remove, the bulldozer remains buried beneath the field as of this day
VB6vZ TIL there are only three known photos and no media recordings of Germany’s richest person, Dieter Schwarz (net worth $38B). He is the former Chairman and CEO of supermarket chain Lidl.
xaXo TIL there was a British man who made millions selling $5 potato peelers on the streets in NYC for 16 years. He died the day after he was granted U.S. citizenship.
6EX1w TIL emperor Hirohito offered to order all the Japanese to convert to Christianity to end the imperial religion, but general MacArthur refused, saying it would be wrong to force a whole nation to convert.