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

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N7rK8 TIL Canada's nuclear reactors (CANDU) are designed to use decommissioned nuclear weapons as fuel and can be refueled while running at full power. They're considered among the safest and the most cost effective reactors in the world.
XEMy8 TIL that in 2011, the Twin Cities experienced such extremes in weather that the day the last of the snow finally melted, it was 103°F.
GxG4 TIL Disney considered creating a park called “Shadowland” or “Dark Kingdom” dedicated to villains.
XEnG6 TIL Rhode Island’s Cranston School District is sending parents who owe lunch money $20 or more and who haven’t paid off the balance within 60 days to collection agency
0wY4y TIL: Rural Indiana lore has long claimed that much of the world's first-ever Ferris wheel was recycled and made into a bridge by farmer J.D. Dunn. Dissenting opinion says the salvaged metal came from the world expos of either 1893 or 1904.