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TIL that a Missouri man was charged for a second time 'trying to have sex with a train seat'

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mxBAP TIL NPR radio host Ira Glass, who has done the show "This American Life" since 1996, received a raise from $170,000 to $278,000 in 2013. Glass said this raise was "unseemly" and asked it to be lowered to $146,000.
QgR6 TIL The age of consent in the Vatican is 12 years old
LGv0 TIL the chip on SIM cards and credit cards is a fully functioning computer, the device it is placed in simply provides power to it
6EmPZ TIL that today 60 years ago the strongest earthquake ever recorded occurred (9.5), so strong it sent a 10m tsunami wave 10,000km to Hawaii.
rnMd TIL in 1956, the U.S. passed the Refrigerator Safety Act, which made it mandatory for all fridges to be magnetically sealed. This was due to the high amount of children who suffocated in latched refrigerators.