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TIL Japanese scientists created a virtually painless needle by studying mosquitoes

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XkGj TIL that the average annual salary of a professional NBA cheerleader is $56,000
OKe TIL Apple set aside a record-shattering $378 million for its CEO Tim Cook last year. That’s over $1,000,000 a day, or nearly 60,000 times the salary of the people who make the products that make Tim Cook rich.
X0oxr TIL about the Dymaxion map projection - Earth if it was a D20
XEvMP TIL spectacled bears are the only bears native to South America. Also called Andean bears, they are one of four extant bear species that are habitually arboreal. Their diet is mainly herbivorous with 5-7% composed of meat. This bear species was the inspiration for the documentary Paddington Bear.
N7XGM TIL in 2007, producers for ABC's Extreme Makeover coaxed a contestant's family into making hurtful comments about her ugliness, then cut the contestant from the show because the recovery period wouldn't fit their production schedule. The contestant's sister killed herself four months later.