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TIL, actor Hugh Laurie was one of the highest-paid actors in television drama, earning £250,000 ($409,000) per episode of televison series House.

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b9MgN TIL the city of Baikonur is located in Kazakhstan but rented by Russia for its space program.
X04kR TIL that Jimmy Carter is known as the first US President born in a hospital (1924)
XX4E TIL to find interstellar life, one of the things astronomers look out for is a Dyson Sphere, a power plant which harnesses the power of its solar system’s sun by surrounding it with solar panels. It is theorized to be a logical necessity for a spacefaring civilization to sustain intergalactic travel
dDa0r TIL There is a theory that the BSE outbreak which affected millions of cattle in the 80s and 90s may have begun when cattle were fed bonemeal made from infected human remains
VBn70 TIL Shi Pei Pu was a Chinese opera singer from Beijing. He became a spy who obtained secrets from Bernard Boursicot, an employee in the French embassy, during a 20-year-long sexual affair in which the performer convinced the man that he was a woman.