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TIL the average salary of a stagehand at Carnegie Hall is more than the salary of the President of the United States.

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6Rw8 TIL of a correlation between legalized abortion and crime rates. In the aftermath of Roe vs Wade, Abortion was legalized in the US causing crime rates to go down.
moKp TIL there is a bridge made of grass in Peru that was originally built 500 years ago and is rebuilt every June
69v1m TIL:That Albert Einstein was a big fan of the puppet show Time For Beany. During one high level conference, he interrupted to say, "You will have to excuse me, gentlemen. It's Time for Beany."
ZDBY TIL life on Earth may have originated on Mars. NASA’s latest studies show that microbes on Mars may have come to Earth on a meteorite.
b60E9 TIL that the Danish word for "Pimp" is "Alfons," after the protagonist in the play Monsieur Alphonse by Alexandre Dumas, fils. As a result, although "Alfons" is the name of popular children's book character, the name remains very rare. As of 2016, there were only 8 people named "Alfons" in Denmark.