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TIL that “renumeration” isn’t a word and we’ve all been pronouncing “remuneration” wrong.

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Yy1x TIL Yoko Ono once brought a dead rat in a shoebox to a recording studio, and insisted that the sound engineer record it. The engineer recorded two takes of the “dead rat solo.”
jNl6N TIL that Euler, one of the greatest mathematicians to ever live and certainly the most prolific, completed about half of his life’s work completely blind
e0QJb TIL The $10,000 bill featuring the portrait of Secretary of the Treasury, Salmon P. Chase, was the highest denomination US currency ever to publicly circulate. A $100,000 bill featuring the portrait of Woodrow Wilson was issued, its purpose was to transfer funds between Federal Reserve Banks.
D1N9p TIL that Samurai in Japan had the right to execute commoners who paid them disrespect. This right continued until the 1870s, when the Samurai were abolished, as Japan modernized its military into a national fighting force modeled on Western standards.
LQ199 TIL a common year (aka non-leap year) begins and ends on the same day of the week