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TIL Homer Simpson makes on average $80,260 a year as a Nuclear Safety Technician

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R967 TIL Article 11 of the Treaty of Tripoli, signed by John Adams, contains the line “The Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion”
4Xww TIL that the United States’ only native parrot species, the Carolina Parakeet, went extinct in 1918 because they were deemed as pests by farmers and as lovely decorations for ladies’ hats.
9JbQ TIL: Antonio Banderas early in his U.S. acting career spoke minimal English and learned his lines phonetically yet still gave critically praised performances.
5YbAQ TIL that there is an Australian pine growing out of an old railroad bridge in the Florida Keys named Fred the Tree. Fred survives with salt spray, lots of sunshine, and no apparent soil. Fred even withstood Hurricane Irma!
Eg6gw TIL the Special Activities Center (SAC) is a clandestine paramilitary division in the CIA whose motto 'Third Option' (Tertia Optio) refers to the US President's third option when "military force is inappropriate and diplomacy is inadequate".