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TIL that chimney sweeping in Germany is protected by a "frankly medieval" guild system. The article also talks about the sweeps' involvement in the country's dark past, the legal requirement to let sweeps in and how freelance competition provoked legal backlash (at time of publication)

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x0yg TIL Friend stars were paid $75,000 per episode in season three, $85,000 in season four, $100,000 in season five, $125,000 in season six, $750,000 in seasons seven and eight, and $1 million in seasons nine and ten, making Aniston, Cox, and Kudrow the highest paid TV actresses of all-time.
X0K6r TIL that "football" refers to a sport played on foot, rather than horseback, and not to how the ball is moved. (Explaining why US Football is known as such despite mostly relying on hands).
DQe7e TIL that a neutron star is the densest known substance in the universe. A tablespoon of neutron star weighs more than Mount Everest.
wNA6 TIL Between 2000-2015, Google had an informal motto of “Don’t be evil”. The idea was to have a motto that “once you put it in there, would be hard to take out”. When Google began to track users in 2012, there was a public backlash to the motto. The motto was replaced by “Do the right thing” in 2015.
LknW0 TIL that the Hammer Museum in Haines, Alaska is the first museum in the world dedicated to hammers, and it boasts 1400 hammers and related tools ranging from ancient times to the industrial era. Its mission is to educate the general public about the history and use of hammers.