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TIL There are cities in the U.S that pay you to live there

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oN18 TIL there’s a mutual fund that has never changed the stocks it holds in over 75 years. Had you invested $10,000 in the Corporate Leaders Trust in 1935, it would be worth over $20,000,000 today. The fund has also outperformed the S&P 500 and Warren Buffett’s Berkshire-Hathaway in the past decade.
pYdK8 TIL Kellog's Corn Pops cereal was named Sugar Pops until 1984 and featured the mascot Sugar Pops Pete blasting sugar on the cereal with a pistol.
vPBrK TIL that the mechanical lifting device, the "Jack", is named after different animals in multiple languages, a donkey in english, literally "Monkey" in portuguese, and literally "Cat" in spanish.
8e8ra TIL Dogs have much more expressive faces than wolves. Dogs make an effort to make eye contact with humans and have notably high control over their eyebrows when compared to wolves. Looking into a dog's eyes has comparable results to a parent looking at their child.
87xG TIL Punxsutawney Phil is so bad at predicting the weather, we would have more accurate predictions with a coin flip.