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TIL Chinese infants were used in performance-enhancement pills

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7r0aL TIL the idea for In-N-Out signature crossed palms came from the 1963 comedy It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, in which there’s a search for a buried treasure that’s hidden beneath four crossed palm trees.
9w4vB TIL The median compensation at Open AI (the company that does Chat GPT) is $616,650, and the top compensation is $905,556.
NXEoJ TIL that in 1998, Sony had the chance to buy the rights to nearly all Marvel characters for $25 million but chose to acquire only Spider-Man, believing no one cared about the others.
96Q TIL that Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateapokaiwhenuakitanatahu a hill in New Zealand, translates to “the place where Tamatea, the man with the big knees, who slid, climbed and swallowed mountains, known as ‘landeater,’ played his flute to his loved one” and is arguably the longest place name.
xW0D TIL that Richard Branson designed a Hot Air Balloon to look like a UFO for April Fool’s Day in 1989 and hired a dwarf to wear an E.T. costume and frighten people where it landed.