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TIL The highest paid hedge fund manager made $3 billion last year. That’s just under $1.5 million dollars an hour.

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BrdYW TIL Burt Shavitz, co-creator and face of Burt’s Bees, was an accomplished photographer prior to beekeeping and had photographs published in Life and Time Magazines.
xV8v0 TIL that the AMSAT-OSCAR 7 amateur radio satellite failed in 1981 due to a short circuit in the batteries and was thought dead. But Polish anticommunists found that it still worked when it was exposed to sunlight -- and used it to covertly send messages to activists in other cities and the West.
ZpWNB TIL that Daintree Rainforest in Australia is the World's Oldest Tropical Rainforest
11JO TIL that a popular slang in French for having your period is “Les Anglais ont debarqué”, or, “The English have landed”.
Zyjp TIL 80% of rapists are raised by single moms and 90% of all homeless and runaway children are from fatherless homes