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TIL after inflation adjustment, the highest paid TV star of all time is Ray Romano for Everybody Loves Raymond

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VBAAk TIL of the Lake Peigneur Giant Sinkhole Disaster of 1980, in which a drilling platform accidentally struck the side of a salt mine, causing the mine to rapidly dissolve and as it swallowed the entire 3.5 billion gallons of water
QNP89 TIL about "The greatest 4x100 race ever." 2012 Olympic Finals, the US team equalled the world record...but lost to Jamaica.
GYl5N TIL Astronaut Harrison Schmitt, from the Apollo 17 mission, had a severe allergy to moon dust.
W7VJ8 TIL that almost all of the rain that falls in the US state of Nevada never flows out to the ocean; it's part of an endorheic basin.
7akp TIL (from the former Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Transportation) that if you work for an airline and you blow the whistle on them for safety violations, you will NEVER be able to work in the aviation industry OR in any related government agencies ever again