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TIL that taller people make bigger salaries. Approx $789 a year per inch

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p8wPb TIL that Nancy Sinatra was asked by songwriter Lee Hazlewood to sing one of her songs as if she were "a sixteen-year-old girl who fucks truck drivers". She promptly went on to reach #1 in the US, the UK, Australia, and Canada for "These Boots Are Made For Walkin'."
oRKGA TIL that the nomenclature for multiples of a thousand is different in the U.S. vs. the U.K. and the French. For example, a thousand times a thousand is a million in both. Times a thousand again becomes, in the U.S., a billion, whereas in the U.K. it becomes a thousand million, or milliard.
E1ZAp TIL that monkeys display metacognitive abilities, which means that they are aware of their own thought process and knowledge, and seek to actively control it.
68gw TIL that Tsar Peter III of Russia court-martialed and hanged a rat which had chewed the heads off his toy soldiers.
R1L9 TIL psychologist David Rosenhan made a deal with a hospital: he would try to admit at least one sane patient to the hospital, in order to test the validity of psycho-analysis. 41 out of 193 were considered imposters. In reality, Rosenhan sent no patients to the hospital.