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TIL NFL Cheerleaders make less than $1,250 a season and less than 5 dollars an hour

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9YEAD TIL Franz von Papen (1879-1969) helped Hitler become German chancellor in 1933 and served as his vice chancellor. Though he soon realized how mistaken he had been, he continued to serve Hitler, and lived long enough to be released and write his memoirs
PJKg TIL famous mathematician Paul Erdos was once challenged to quit taking amphetamines for one month by a concerned friend. He succeeded, but complained “You’ve showed me I’m not an addict, but I didn’t get any work done…you’ve set mathematics back a month”.
p8N08 TIL that as of 2008, Christmas lights in the U.S. use more electricity over the holidays than entire countries' annual usage: 6.63 billion kWh
VMDKm TIL it is possible to "graft" branches of different trees together and create a tree of 40 fruits
5Y9YP TIL Mohammed V, Sultan of Morocco during the Vichy regime, protected Moroccan Jews from being deported or killed during WWII. The Moroccan Jewish population was essentially in tact at the end of the war.