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TIL There Is An Organization That Preserves The Night Sky by Fighting Light Pollution, and Bill Nye is the Newest Ambassador!

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jN1np TIL that while Screen Actors Guild members earn an average of $52,000 a year, the vast majority take home less than $1,000 a year from acting jobs.
b9wB4 TIL Ronald Reagan holds the record for both the coldest Inauguration (7 degrees) and the record for the warmest Inaguration (55 degrees)
VBlO4 TIL that the first face seen on a television screen was that of "Stooky Bill"—a chalk-white ventriloquist's dummy used by Scottish inventor John Logie Baird for his experiments to transmit a televised image. A dummy was used because the lights of this first TV studio were too hot for humans to bear.
LQLBQ TIL that the loudest shout ever recorded was by a primary school teacher who yelled ‘quiet!’ It was clocked at 121.7 decibels and the record has stood for 30 years.
956G TIL that babies will instinctively hold their breath underwater until the age of six months.