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TIL General Motors pays its CEO more than it pays in US taxes

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lbaV TIL comedian Louis CK’s first language is Spanish as he grew up in Mexico. He jokes that he is an “accidental white person” because he doesn’t look Hispanic
AD6vn TIL In 1608, English writer Thomas Coryat wrote a book detailing his five months’ travel through Europe in which he described, among other things, use of the table fork as an eating utensil. He also introduced “umbrella” into English after noticing Italians shielding themselves from the sun.
78a0P TIL that a man accidentally got shot in the head by a particle accelerator back in 1978 and is still alive
kr61 TIL The city of Lusail, the host city of the 2022 World Cup Final, doesn’t exist yet.
j7X TIL Harriet Tubman used Opium to keep small children subdued and quiet while smuggling them on the Underground Railroad