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TIL Jimmy Buffett saved Colin Jost's Life in 2014

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1GdV TIL, In 200 BC, when Sparta was at the height of its power there were 20 slaves for every citizen.
oEAK TIL Bill Hader once worked as an usher at a movie theater and was fired for spoiling the end of Titanic to noisy patrons.
ngko TIL Andrew Jackson slept in a hotel the night of his inauguration because 20,000 people were turning up in the White House. His aides tried to lure the mob outside with washtubs filled orange juice and whiskey.
b9QwN TIL that the Richter scale, used to measure the magnitude of an earthquake, is logarithmic, meaning every whole-number increase in the scale indicates a tenfold increase in the intensity.
rKX4 TIL the Emerald Cockroach Wasp injects venom into a specific part of a cockroaches brain to stop its escape/survival instinct response, lays an egg in it’s abdomen, then its larva eats the organs in a specific way to keep the roach alive before it cocoons and leaves its body.