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TIL NFL & NBA Cheerleaders Make Less Than $1000 A Year

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9mb6 TIL that it is mathematically impossible to comb the hair on a ball without creating at least one cowlick
7bEP TIL the game Twister was nearly killed in its crib when the Sears catalog rejected it for being too sexy. But just as the makers were about to give up, the game was saved by Johnny Carson, who played Twister with blonde bombshell Eva Gabor on The Tonight Show, and sales soared into the millions.
VM7Xm TIL In his early phases of Alzheimer's in 1995, 84 year old Ronald Reagan still received visitors at his office and worked out daily with his personal trainer. Routine is important to Alzheimer’s patients, and on good days Reagan's routine was the the same as it had been since leaving office
Vnm0 TIL the inventor of the ATM proposed a 6 digit bank PIN but switched it to 4 digits because it was the longest string of numbers that his wife could remember.
e0w5D TIL that bamboo is the fastest growing plant in the world and can grow roughly 0.9 meters in a day if presented with the appropriate conditions.