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TIL That the average person is willing to pay 19k to 52k per year for housekeeping services

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5V8pk TIL about Dr. Mike Bingham, a conservationist who was fired for reporting an 80% penguin decline. He was harassed by the government, sued them for human rights abuses, and won in the Supreme Court.
JYa9k TIL that in 1953, a North Korean fighter pilot defected to South Korea with his MiG-15 and was rewarded $100,000 from the United States
wolnP TIL people used to do their laundry in Old Faithful geyser in Yellowstone National Park. They would put their clothes in the geyser and it would erupt with clean clothes.
9wYlX TIL The Japanese sports equipment company ASICS is an acronym for “anima sana in corpore sano” Latin for “sound body, sound mind”
KYGxR TIL Ernest Hemmingway's great-granddaughter, Cristen Hemmingway Jaynes, is also a fiction writer and a non-fiction writer on environmental issues.