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TIL Arnold Schwarzenegger's salary for Terminator 2: Judgement Day was paid mostly by buying him a $12.75 million Gulfstream III jet

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Bry1K TIL in 1981 a man named Roger Fischer had an idea for a volunteer to have ICBM launch codes put in their chest cavity. In the event of an emergency, the volunteer would carry a knife to be killed with. It was meant to force the personal killing of one man to start the impersonal killing of millions.
Y79AZ TIL Unix time, a concept originating from the Unix operating system developed in the 1960s, represents timestamps as the number of seconds elapsed since January 1st, 1970 at 00:00:00 UTC This method simplifies parsing and utilizing time across various systems by representing it as an integer.
D1WKg TIL a light bulb in Livermore, California has burned continuously for over 117 years. Conspiracy theorists see it as a symbol of planned obsolescence, but its longevity can be attributed to its extremely inefficient design.
ZyNR TIL Cleveland, Ohio has set it’s river on fire… thirteen times.
mxoxE TIL that in 1897, Indiana nearly passed a bill claiming Pi equals 3.2 exactly. The bill would have passed the Senate, but a Mathematics professor happened to be present that day.