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TIL that Judge Judy makes more money than David Letterman.

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k9BW TIL that Reagan and Gorbachev informally agreed that the US and USSR would assist each other in the event of an alien invasion
DDOD TIL, due to debilitating back injuries, to get through his final season Larry Bird would spend every minute not playing basketball in a full body cast. When he finally retired at the end of the year, he took the cast out behind his house and blew it to pieces with a shotgun.
7e9M TIL there is a church in Rome that is lined with skeletons and has a plaque in 3 languages that reads “What you are now, we once were; what we are now, you shall be.”
AN7J7 TIL of the proposed Overwhelmingly Large Telescope, whose 100m aperture would have allowed it to see objects 1500x fainter than the Hubble Telescope and analyze extrasolar planets for molecules indicating life. It was cancelled due to the €1.5 billion cost being too high
gMdyW TIL from the ages of 1 to 44 you are most likely to die from an accident. From the age of 45 on, you are most likely to die from cancer or heart disease. (Under 1, you are most likely to die from a birth defect)