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TIL In-N-Out managers make $160,000 per year

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W76YY TIL that Jim Farley, the CEO of Ford Motor Company, is also the cousin of the late comedian Chris Farley.
XE578 TIL the population of Phytoplankton has dropped 40% since the 1950’s. Phytoplankton contribute 70% more Oxygen to our earth than trees do. (I.E. We need to care about the ocean!)
GYn75 TIL that some scientists theorize that the origin of life is just the inevitable outcome of thermodynamics as a middle-step to increase overall entropy in the universe.
gMnOX TIL despite Portuguese neutrality in WWII British ships were allowed to refuel in Portugal because of a treaty signed over 600 years ago - the Treaty of Windsor, which is the longest lasting alliance treaty in the world. The treaty has been invoked several times to save Portugal from invasion.
VwQ0 TIL Hummingbirds have such a high metabolism that they are continuously hours away from starving to death