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TIL Macaulay Culkin got paid $100,000 for Home Alone 1 in 1990. In 1992 for Home Alone 2, he was paid $4.5 Million and in 1994 for Ri¢hie Ri¢h… $8Mil.

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kPLW TIL in the early 1900s a transexual man (born as a woman) was able to pass for a man, enabling him to vote, marry two successive wives, adopt a daughter and successfully stand for political office in NYC.
P1g9G TIL an Islandic company named Kerecis makes skin grafts from fish skins (of North Atlantic cod caught in Icelandic waters). The fish-skin graft is approved by the FDA as well as European regulatory authorities
WRDd TIL: Physicist Alan Sokal wrote a mock paper full of made up gibberish in the style of post-modernist philosophers and managed to get it published to prove that some philosophers are bullshitters.
NZn1 TIL Australia has compulsory voting. In the 2010 Tasmanian state election, 6,000 people were fined $26 for not voting.
W7YJX TIL Freshwater snails carry a parasitic disease called schistosomiasis, which infects nearly 250 million people, mostly in Asia, Africa and South America. “It's one of the world's most deadly parasites,” says Susanne Sokolow, a disease ecologist at Stanford University's Hopkins Marine Station