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TIL Miami, FL has not reached 100F since 1942.

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awwNb TIL NBA player Allen Iverson signed a lifetime endorsement contract with Reebok in 2001 that would pay him $800,000 a year until he reaches age 55 to where he would then receive a final lump sum payment of $32,000,000.
gMB0W TIL about reactance, an emotion that occurs when a person feels that someone or something is taking away their choices or limiting the range of alternatives.
prOp TIL in 1947 the British used 6800 tonnes of surplus WW2 explosives to destroy military infrastructure on the tiny island of Heligoland. Loss of the island was acceptable. The explosion resulted in one of the largest single non-nuclear detonations recorded. Newsreel footage in comments.
DQNdJ TIL that an insurance agent in Singapore had poached more than 200 agents to join a rival insurance company and was ordered by court to pay $8.5 million to his former insurance company
9wZyX TIL of the Y2k38 Problem. Similar in nature to the Y2K bug, when the year 2038 strikes 03:14:07 UTC on 19 March, computers still using 32-bit systems to process the date and time may not be able to cope with the time change and could revert to the year 1901.