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TIL that due to the “welfare cliff”, a single mother of two is better off with a $29,000 per year job than she is with a $69,000 per year job.

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rRE9e TIL that when Bill Cosby won 3 Razzies in 1987, he insisted that he wanted a real trophy. His original Razzie was worth $1.97, but the Fox Network made him real ones out of 24 carat gold and Italian marble, costing $30,000. He was the first actor to claim any Razzie.
oBx8Y TIL that Clint Eastwood was signed to play 'Two Face' in the Batman television show during the 1960's but the series was canceled before the filming began.
8XgG TIL that AOL still has 2.4 Million paying monthly subscribers. They made AOL $196 Million last quarter which accounts for one third of their overall revenues.
8axMG TIL During WWII, there was a unit of Japanese schoolgirls who looked after Kamikaze pilots before they went on suicide missions. Called the Nadeshiko, they were aged between 14-15 and lived and worked on a military base with the men, preparing meals and befriending them before they went to die.
KOE86 TIL of Operation Moolah, a 1953 USAF effort to obtain a combat capable Soviet MiG-15 jet by rewarding any defecting Communist pilot 100k cash. The person who won it didn't even know it was being offered.