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TIL The median age for a Fox News viewer is 65 years old

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KO0Ya TIL about Senator Margaret Chase Smith (R-ME) who delivered a 1950 Senate floor speech ("Declaration of Conscience") against McCarthyism - while he was seated behind her. McCarthy removed her from a subcommittee and financed her (unsuccessful) primary challenger. She voted for his censure in 1954.
b049 TIL that Scott Neeson former president of 20th Century Fox International, sold his mansion, porsche, and yacht and left the industry to establish and personally oversee Cambodian Children’s Fund as Executive Director. (in Cambodia)
mxBmE TIL that money can actually buy happiness - perhaps even without limits. Previous studies assumed the well-being plateaus would be at 75.000$ yearly income per household.
nvY7 TIL that Scrubs episode where Dr. Cox lost all his transplant patients to rabies was based on a real event. [pdf]
0w0xM TIL that in 1966 a US Air Force B-52 bomber and a USAF tanker collided in midair, and the 4 nuclear bombs the B-52 carried fell into Southeast Spain. One of the bombs detonated, scattering plutonium all over the countryside.