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TIL Arnold Schwarzenegger turned down his estimated $207,500 yearly salary stating it was “petty cash”. Instead, he “gave it back to the community” and didn’t collect a salary the entire time he served.

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RRM6 TIL in 1740, a 16-Year-Old English Boy, having been convicted of rape and murder, was hanged by the neck for 20 minutes. After being cut down, his body was sent to be dissected when he began to show signs of life. After making a full recovery, his sentence was commuted to exile.
ZDPG TIL most train horns are based on musical chords. Common passenger trains found in the U.S. are usually based on maj6th chords, which are not as threatening as most freight trains, which are based on more dissonant, frightening , such as diminished 7th chords
78LWM TIL that Schlitz who made the beer that made Milwaukee famous not only took over the brewery from August Krug when he died, but also married his widow!
XE5rP TIL that immediately before his execution on January 31, Guy Fawkes (perpetrator of the gunpowder plot) fell from the scaffold where he was to be hanged and broke his neck, thus avoiding the agony of being hanged, drawn and quartered. His lifeless body was nevertheless quartered.
Xd8E TIL Will Smith is the only actor to have eight consecutive films gross over $100 million in the domestic box office