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TIL FaceBook's 30th employee was fired just 3 months before vesting 0.025% of the company in 2006.

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Brv0W TIL Keanu took a $2 million pay cut for The Devil’s Advocate, so the studio would be able to afford to hire Al Pacino as the lead.
6kWw TIL that only one nation in the world has mandatory and enforced with fines, helmet laws for all bicyclists. New Zealand.
gM4DD TIL about ColorADD - A system of symbols designed to help colourblind people distinguish colours
lkP1 TIL Ted Bundy was used like Hannibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkins) in Silence of the Lambs and was asked for help in catching the Green River Killer (Gary Ridgway), another Serial Killer active in Washington State. Bundy predicted Ridgway’s actions.
p8AGA TIL of Mr. Skygack, from Mars. Running from 1907 to 1911, it is considered to be the first science-fiction comic, featuring the first extraterrestrial character in comics history. It also inspired the first cosplay, where a man wore a Mr. Skygack costume to a masquerade in 1908.