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TIL astronauts receive a starting salary of only 66k a year.

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wLQNo TIL Moonshiners can tell the alcohol content of their product just by shaking it and observing the size and duration of the bubbles. It's also a quick way to spot if someone's water bottle is actually water or not.
PY1ww TIL that architects can design a home or building with a glass structure that lets cool air in the bottom and releases warm air at its top. This is known as a solar chimney and works off similar principles of regular fire chimneys
E1xWw TIL that Patrick Star is so clueless and dumb because he lives under a rock
0dGNv TIL about Fugu, a dish prepared from Pufferfish, which can be lethal to humans if toxic parts of the fish are not properly prepared. In Japan and Korea, by law, only chefs who pass a three-year training are permitted to prepare the dish. Domestic preparation occasionally leads to accidental death.
jBgn TIL in 2010, the US Air Force built a supercomputer out of 1700 Playstation 3s.