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TIL that the highest paid state employee in the USA is Nick Saban, the Alabama football team head coach, making $7.09 million a year

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Z88mB TIL Alexander Graham Bell believed that deafness was something that could eventually be completely eradicated, and was one of the most vocal opponents of ASL.
ne5Eb TIL of the 1988 Armenian Earthquake. The initial more powerful quake lasted approximately 20 seconds and anywhere from 25-50 thousand people were killed with over half a million structures destroyed.
bvK9 TIL Matt Stone and Trey Parker created a South Park video game for Game boy Color but canceled the project because it wasn’t suitable for children and kept a few copies to commemorate what was originally started.
Y4a7 TIL that while FDR was the first President to win election more than twice, he was the fifth to try. Ulysses S. Grant, Grover Cleveland, and Woodrow Wilson tried and were denied their party’s nomination
ldRG TIL that Foxconn, the iPhone manufacturer, has reduced its employees from 110,000 to 50,000, thanks to the introduction of robots.