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TIL the highest paid state employees in most states is a state university (men’s) athletic coach.

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eVpE TIL a spoonful of matter taken from a neutron star would weigh more that Mt. Everest, or 900 pyramids of Giza. (5,500,000,000 tons)
ekDD TIL Intellectual property law doesn’t cover magic tricks. An amazing, original trick can be stolen from a magician and there’s nothing he can do about it.
B4Py TIL Martin Van Buren (b. 1782) was the first president born a US citizen
5YO0R TIL in 1976, the team studying a newly-identified virus in Africa didn't want to name it after the village where it was found, so they named it after the closest river they could see on a map, which was the Ebola River.
meaP TIL “bread and butter pickles” are named this because its creators, Cora and Omar Fanning, were short of cash and worked out an agreement with a local grocer, who gave them groceries – including bread and butter – in exchange for the pickles.