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

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E1Eg0 TIL that Los Angeles County libraries allow kids 21 and under to read away what they owe in late fees at a rate of $5 per hour. Since the program launched last year, LA County libraries have logged more than 50,000 reading sessions and reinstated more than 13,000 previously blocked accounts.
Z8Zya TIL after reading the script for ‘Stop! Or My Mother Will Shoot,’ Arnold Schwarzenegger thought it was so bad that he leaked fake interest in the film to the press to get rival star, Sylvester Stallone, to try to steal the role. It worked and Stallone starred in the critical and commercial flop.
XROr TIL that when a missionary told the Amazonian Piraha tribe the story of his aunt’s suicide, they laughed. No one in their tribe had ever committed suicide and they had no concept of it, so they thought it was a joke.
9Yn4M TIL The UK has an Alarming 50% Higher Death per 100k rate Than The US!!!
1a8Gd TIL that the San Marino military maintains a crossbow corps