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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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NXZ1M TIL In August 17, 1891, the US govt sponsored bombing clouds to make it rain.
606W TIL that in the 1960s Chrysler developed a car powered by a gas turbine engine. It could rev to 44,500 rpm, sounded like a vacuum cleaner and could run on diesel, petrol, kerosine, jet fuel and as the President of Mexico proved, tequila.
Ra99 TIL That the Greeks believed male sperm was the source of courage, and hence practiced Pederasty, a sexual relationship between an adult mentor and a teenage boy, with the permission of the boy’s father.
KOB5w TIL after the first atomic bomb was detonated in New Mexico in 1945, a car full of ranchers happened to witnesses it, with one asking what happened, as it was so bright. She was blind.
D1PVj TIL the last time Mtv's schedule was only music videos with no other programming was the weeks after 9/11/2001 when they played a tight playlist of light and mournful songs.