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TIL: The President of the USA currently makes 20% the salary that the president in 1909 made in real terms and an all time record low salary for presidents of the US

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MeQMV TIL that after the 1755 Lisbon earthquake, the prime minister of Portugal sent a query to parishes around the country in order to objectively understand what happened. He is now regarded as a forerunner of modern seismological scientists.
rP0e TIL a NY woman was startled to hear a loud crash in her apartment kitchen followed by the sounds of someone breathing inside her wall. The man inside had climbed into an air vent before falling six stories and getting stuck. He said it was part of the initiation for being new to the building.
x6Xab TIL The Catholic Church reclassified beavers as fish so Catholics could eat them during Lent. They also reclassified capybaras for dietary purposes.
m1GKv TIL that research on the Harry Potter book series found that it helps reduce readers’ prejudice toward minority groups.
wBGP TIL that the world’s oldest company is Kongō Gumi, a Japanese construction firm founded in 578 and which operated independently until it was bought out in 2006.