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TIL air conditioning enabled mass American migrations to the south and help created summer blockbusters

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lD5B TIL Bobby Bonilla, a former baseball player, agreed to be bought out and defer his $5.9 million contract in 2000, so that the New York Mets would pay him $1.19 million every year from 2011 to 2035, totalling $29.8 million for a year he didn’t even play.
x6B9g TIL that Mozart wrote a song called "Lick me in the arse".
QGgd TIL One million seconds is a little over 11 days and one billion seconds is over 31 years.
yQDlw TIL there’s a dating app in Iceland that "helps prevent accidental incest". Due to the small population of 320,000 it is a real risk bumping into a previously unknown cousin. The app lets users "bump" phones and emits a warning alarm if they are closely related.
kOlKd TIL that eight women that are believed to have had a romantic relationship with Adolf Hitler attempted to commit suicide at least once. Four of them succeeded: two shot themselves, one allegedly threw herself out of a window and the other was Eva Braun who took a cyanide pill at Hitler’s side.