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TIL Judge Judy makes $47 million a year ($900,000 per work day)

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epV7E TIL On the soundtrack to Batman Begins, Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard named all the tracks after the scientific names of Bats and Tracks 4 - 9 Barbastella, Artibeus, Tadarida, Macrotus, Antrozous, and Nycterus, spell out BATMAN.
g5LD TIL Vincent van Gogh painted “Starry Night” while he was in an insane asylum.
pYdyG TIL that when Wyoming was going through the process of becoming a US state in 1890, the state demanded that women be given the right to vote. The US Congress denied this request. The state replied by saying that they'd "remain out of the Union one hundred years rather than come in without the women"
v1mR8 TIL of Forrest Bird, the creator of some of the first reliable mass-produced mechanical ventilators. He sold his first units to the army, and they were made of strawberry shortcake tins and door knobs.
JYYEQ The US Air Force’s scientific research wing is giving Lockheed Martin $26.3 million “for the design, development, and production of a high power (tens of kilowatts) fiber laser,” which it expects to start testing on a tactical fighter jet in four years.