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TIL NASA will pay you $19,000 to lay in bed for two months!

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4YOg TIL your state’s highest paid public employee is probably a football coach
l7xWr TIL two aviation incidents happened where superstitious, inexperienced passengers tried to throw coins into the plane's engines for good luck before the flight.
8a9GP TIL Anti Video Game activist Jack Thompson once said that if someone made a game about shooting up E3 than he would donate 10,000$ to charity. He refused to donate once the game actually got made
LQg5V TIL That Neil Hope, the actor who played 'Wheels' on the first two Degrassi series, died in 2007 and his death was not discovered by his family and cast mates until almost five years later.
wEjY TIL that hand-warmers are filled with iron, and the heat comes from the process of the iron turning into rust when exposed to oxygen