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TIL That the US state of Vermont is paying people $10,000 to have people move there and work remotely for an out of state employer

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jZ8X TIL that if you have 23 people in a room, there’s a 50/50 chance two people have the same birthday. If there are just 57 people, there’s a 99% chance.
d6mj TIL that if you clap your hands in front of Chichen Itza’s El Castillo pyramid, the echo will sound like a chirping bird
R5lO8 TIL that the backup singer for Guns N’ Roses’ “Don’t Cry” is Blind Melon’s Shannon Hoon.
OoRyL TIL American literary icon Jack Kerouac grew up speaking French, until he was six. He also played football at Columbia.
e0wJb TIL the Aquatic Ape Theory suggests that early hominids lived in water part of the time and accounts for our hairless bodies (streamlined for swimming) our upright, two-legged walking (made wading easier) & our layers of subcutaneous fat, which made us better insulated in water (think whale blubber)