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TIL that The Empire State Building has its own postcode

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ykZw TIL that a U.S. Army Captain’s base pay is $46,026 a year, while a Roman Centurion received 38.58 ounces of gold annually. Using the current market gold price of $1200 an ounce, that comes out to $46,296.
Bg4jy TIL there are approximately only 6,674 cheetahs in the wild today and only 5% of cheetah cubs make it to adulthood. The key factors of their decline are habitat loss, exotic pet industry, poaching for their skin, and conflicts with farmers. Currently, they exist only 10% of their historic range.
YmWv TIL The ending of 2005 romantic comedy “Fever Pitch” had to be rewritten, with additional filming, when the Red Sox defeated the Yankees and St. Louis Cardinals to win the 2004 World Series. The writers had originally assumed the Red Sox would lose.
XQRR TIL Supercars are often abandoned in Dubai thanks strict debt laws. The cars are “left by expatriates and locals alike who flee in a hurry because they face crippling debts… hopping on the next flight out of there, never to return.”
vxOr TIL if no one smoked health care costs would be SEVEN PERCENT higher! Smokers contribute to economy by dying earlier.