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TIL one of the highest paid jobs in the country is a Harbor Pilot, where they specialize in piloting large cargo ships into shipping ports with precision; they can earn over $400,000 a year

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G0Wj TIL in 1965 a patent was filed for a ‘birthing apparatus’ which would spin pregnant women around at as much as 7 G until their baby was flung out from the centrifugal force.
lodOr TIL that the iconic riff to Rage Against The Machine's "Killing in the Name" was conceived while guitarist Tom Morello was giving a student a guitar lesson. He then stopped the session to record the part.
E1OAW TIL about Kintsukuroi which is the practice of seeing beauty in the flawed or imperfect. Instead of throwing out the damaged pottery, the Japanese would repair it with gold and create art from the broken.
X0ZOj TIL Because it had a stainless steel body, the Delorean’s owner manual recommended using gasoline to clean it.
kEmB TIL there’s a drug called Actos, which side-effects include an increase risk of bladder cancer by 83 percent, heart failure, liver failure and bone fractures. It’s been banned in France and Germany, but still legal in the United States.