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TIL the top 25 hedge fund managers in America make more than all the country’s kindergarten teachers combined

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OGY1g TIL that in 1940 the SS newspaper Das schwarze Korps attacked Jerry Siegel, creator of Superman, after they got a copy of the comic showing how Superman would end the war
xVQY5 TIL that the most dangerous nuclear accident in US history, the Three Mile Island incident, didn't affect the environment and had no casualties.
4X7jJ TIL during WW2 Japanese soldiers used bio-luminescent species of Ostracod as a source of light to read maps on the battlefield without giving away their position. When mixed with water, the dried shells of these Ostracods give off a cold blue light.
1LJV TIL that there is one-way bullet resistant glass.
yVB0a TIL that the term boycott is named after the land agent Charles Boycott, against whom the tactic was used by Irish nationalists in opposition to the system of English landlords in Ireland