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TIL that Arnold Schwarzenegger did not accept his California governor’s salary of $175,000 per year because of his already substantial wealth from his acting career.

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0yw5 TIL Ben Stein’s famous lecture about the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act in “Ferris Buller’s Day Off” was not originally in the script. Stein, by happenstance, was lecturing off-camera to the amusement of extra’s who laughed so hard director Hughes told Ben to do that lecture for camera.
PaPn TIL the native americans planted corn, beans, and squash together so that they would benefit eachother. The corn provides a structure for the beans to climb. The beans provide the nitrogen to the soil that the other plants utilize, and the squash spreads along the ground preventing weeds
YpNXB TIL that all beaches in Mexico are property of the federal government. There are no privately owned beaches in the whole country, all of them are open to public use.
nwWo TIL that during the planning for NASA’s moon landings of the 1960s, it was suggested that the United Nations flag be used instead of the U.S. flag
e0XBL TIL about the “Kids for cash” scandal where two judges were paid by for profit prisons to send kids to jail.