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TIL Cyndi Lauper best known for the song "Girls Just Want To Have Fun", was a big part of the success of (WWF at the time) WWE bringing them down the road to a multi-billion dollar origination.

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OGBOg TIL When a man in New York needed a heart transplant from a donor in Oklahoma, the hospital reached out to the US Air Force to help with transportation. The donor heart was transported across the country in two hours on an F-111 fighter jet. The operation was a complete success.
7rDRL TIL that McDonald's restaurants made about $37.5 billion in the U.S. in 2017 and the CEO has an annual salary of $15 million.
LQjn0 TIL that Venice was built on a foundation of about 10,000,000 underwater wooden logs. 1200 years later, those same trunks still support almost all of Venice
Gg8E TIL Bryan Cranston was actually taught how to make meth by the DEA in preparation for his role in Breaking Bad
OolA7 TIL of "A Village Fair with a Church Behind": a 1643 painting by Isack van Ostade owned by Queen Elizabeth II. When conservators cleaned the painting, they discovered that a bush in the foreground had been painted over the original around 1903; they removed the bush which revealed a pooping man.