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TIL when you pay off your loans (student, installment, auto etc.), your credit score may drop significantly

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VMOOG TIL we are around 1cm taller in the morning than by the end of the day, due to compressien cartilage in our spine and in other parts of our bodies
e0Wkb TIL there was a short lived spin off of "The Golden Girls" called "The Golden Palace", where they all ran a hotel minus Bea Arthur. It oddly ran on CBS instead of NBC, and was cancelled after one season. Also co-starred a young Don Cheadle and Cheech Martin as a hotel chef.
dKPK TIL that sapphires and rubies are actually the same material, and only look different because of slight impurities.
WkpAB TIL: Farmers in the Austrian Alps are resorting to blowing up the carcasses of dead cows with dynamite rather than paying £200 to have them removed by helicopter (it is a legal requirement that all dead animals are removed from farms).
gNgb TIL that John Carpenter offered Christopher Lee the roll of Dr. Loomis in the classic 1978 horror film Halloween. Lee declined due to the low pay, but later said that declining the role was his biggest career mistake.