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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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j61Ep TIL the population of the North Sentinelese living on North Sentinel Island is estimated to only be between 50 and 100 people.
xVOK7 TIL there were men-only 'executive' flights until the 70s with cocktails, complimentary cigars and steak dinners
4vBJ TIL When Winston Churchill Traveled By Ship During WWII He Had a Lifeboat Mounted With A Machine Gun So He Could “resist capture at all costs”
OobK1 TIL that in 1971, as part of an experiment to study the causes and effects of landslides, Japanese scientists watered down a hill using fire hoses to simulate the effect of a torrential rainstorm. The soil on the hill gave way and the resulting landslide killed 4 scientists and 11 observers.
Lkynr TIL Saul was selected to be the first King of Israel when the people demanded that they wanted a king, "to govern us like all the nations". Saul was described as "tall" and "handsome" but had no other relevant qualifications and was surprised to be annointed King