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TIL in Norway, everyone's salary is public record and available online.

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e0xmJ TIL of Here Come the Mummies, a funk band consisting of 12 members, who are rumoured to have several Grammy awards among the members, however this is difficult to prove, as all the members wear full mummy costumes when performing.
ANavl TIL that the “SEGA” jingle at the beginning of Sonic the Hedgehog took up ~ 1/8th of the entire game’s storage size on the cartridge!
6Dgl TIL that the most lethal sport riot in history happened in Constantinople AD 532, was over chariot racing, and saw tens of thousands dead and half the city destroyed.
p75N TIL in 2004, an activist from The Yes Men falsely claiming to represent Dow Chemicals was interviewed by BBC, claiming Dow had agreed to a $12 billion settlement for victims of the 1984 Bhopal, India chemical disaster (in which 3,000 peopl died). Dow lost $2 billion in the ensuing stock selloff.
pYrlG TIL Jochen Rindt from Austria is the only Formula One driver to win the World Drivers' Championship posthumously. He was killed during practice for the 1970 Italian GP, but he had earned enough points that no other driver could surpass his total by season's end.