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TIL The Three Stooges, during their 23 years with Colombia Pictures, were chronically underpaid and never received a pay increase, because the head of the studio convinced them that they were unpopular with audiences.

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N7PQ1 TIL that all early humans were “lactose intolerant” after infancy. In 10,000 BC, a single individual passed on a mutation that has since spread incredibly fast, allowing humans to begin digesting lactose for life and causing the widespread consumption of dairy.
ya1l TIL the word idiot was coined by the ancient Greeks to describe, contemptuously, those people who, even though eligible, did not participate in politics.
5YBXR TIL In the 300 BC the Greek mathematician Aristarchus created a formula capable of accurately calculating the distance of the Sun from Earth.
OoakL TIL that the composer Arnold Schoenberg had a morbid fear of the number 13. On his 76th birthday, an astrologer wrote him a letter of warning reading only "7 + 6 = 13", causing him to fall into a deep depression and illness, from which he died on Friday the 13th.
VMJ0Z TIL that in 1961 two nuclear bombs were dropped on North Carolina when the US bomber carrying them broke up in midair. Although neither detonated, one of the bombs was fully armed and it is unknown to this day why it failed. Each bomb had 250 times the destructive power of the one used at Hiroshima.