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TIL that the theme tune for the show Barney Miller inspired the legendary bassist Cliff Burton to take up the bass guitar

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W0QL TIL that if you earn more than $25,000 annually, you’re in the top 10% of the world’s income earners. If you earn more than $50,000 a year, you’re in the top 1% of the world’s income earners.
j6n5j TIL The Smoot–Hawley Act of '30 was an attempt to protect the US from foreign competition by imposing high tariffs. The consensus view among economists and historians is that the passage of the Act had, in fact, achieved an opposite effect to what was intended. It exacerbated the Great Depression
dDwRK TIL that a life vest dispensing drone saved a drowning 14 year old boy on Spanish beach in 2022
OGo6e Today I learned Japanese zoo keepers have to jerk off young pandas after every meal to ensure proper digestion.
0wn85 TIL Gino Bartali not only won the Tour de France twice, but also saved 800 Jewish lives during WW2 by smuggling counterfeit identity papers in his bike’s handlebars.