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TIL Along with poor service the CEO of Time Warner takes a salary so large many of their employees would have to work for 1,000 years to equal it.

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YXQ7 TIL Heath Ledger passed away before completing ANY post-production ADR (voice overs) for Dark Knight - The film contains 100% pure onsite recordings.
768O TIL When Queen Elizabeth was married in 1947 post-war rationing was still in effect and as a result, she had to save up clothing ration coupons to pay for her dress.
M7N9B TIL Ben Affleck is Fluent in Spanish
lDyr TIL of a man from Poland who was admitted to the hospital after a car accident with a BAC of 1.480%. Believing their equipment was faulty, doctors tested him 5 more time with the same result each time. The man died a few days later due to his injuries from the accident, rather than his BAC.
vNm7 TIL that Superb Fairy-wrens teach their eggs a ‘secret password’ that the young can sing when they hatch. Those that sing the password get food, and the brood parasite eggs (which don’t learn the password) go hungry!