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TIL that in 80% of the States in the US, Sports Coaches are the Highest-Paid Public Employees

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ovWA TIL Kari Byron was working for Jamie Hyneman’s company when on her first day was asked to model her butt for a 3D scan, landing her role on Mythbusters
J1Ky1 TIL that between one-half and two-thirds of European immigrants to the Thirteen Colonies between the 1630s and the American Revolution came as indentured servants
ddDK TIL of Tour de Donut, a 30 mile bike race in Illinois where riders take 5 minutes off their time for each donut they eat along the way.
8aoPb TIL Manhattan's current population and density is 40% lower than it's peak, which was reached over 110 years ago in 1910.
wLoeJ "What if we could just cool the planet off by making it more reflective—more like a disco ball than a baseball? Actually, we could. It’s called solar geoengineering. Scientists could release materials into the stratosphere that reflect sunlight back into space, kind of like slapping giant sunglasses on Earth."