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TIL There is a $44,000 salary cap for doormen in NYC

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0wad5 TIL that Spain won basketball gold at the 2000 Paralympics but most of the team wasn't disabled. The coach asked the team to slow their scoring because they were playing too well. When journalists became suspicious, they were encouraged to grow beards and wear hats so as not to be recognisable.
e0MXk TIL that in 1991 a cosmonaut was stuck in orbit on the MIR Space Station while the USSR collapsed below on earth
OBWR TIL that as the Earth gets warmer, Lizards are getting smarter
NVjE TIL that many of the child actors who played the Little Rascals were later murdered and/or convicted of murder. Also, the original dog to play Pete the Pup was assassinated in 1930.
W7LV8 TIL of Tarrare, a man who was constantly hungry and would eat anything from corks, stones, live animals, human blood and was even suspected of eating a toddler