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TIL: During a US government shutdown Congress continues to be paid because their pay cannot be altered except by direct law

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mBDx TIL Cristiano Ronaldo bought his agent a whole Greek Island as a wedding present
696Zw TIL Adolf Heusinger, Operations Chief within the general staff of the High Command of the German Army from 1938-1944, would become the Chairman of the NATO Military Committee from 1961 to 1964.
jNlJa TIL Benford's Law dictates that any number occurring in nature (such as the speed of light or the length of a river) is more likely to start with 1 than any other number. There's a 30% chance it will start with 1, and the probability of it being any number from 2 through 9 decreases exponentially.
oBMOK TIL about "Black Death" aka Henry Johnson, "the One-Man Army Who Fought Off Dozens of German Soldiers During World War I".
lLAr TIL that the Korean alphabet, known as Hangul, was introduced by King Sejong in the 1440s to improve literacy. The difficulty of Chinese characters favored privileged aristocrats, whereas Sejong’s phonetic alphabet allowed Koreans of all classes to learn how to read and write