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TIL In 1993, NFL Rookie Quarterback Rick Mirer included an ‘End of the World’ Clause in his Contract, Guaranteeing Salary even if the World Ends

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VM8D8 TIL In 1740 a Swedish woman named Christina Johansdotter killed a friends infant in order to die herself as a result of execution for her crime. Bizarrely, killing children as a method of suicide was so problematic the government tried getting involved (tagged as NSFW just in case)
GADjg TIL a certain type of sherry wine can have a sugar content greater than 450g/L, over 4x that of Coca-Cola
4XW8X TIL that there is another version of Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut. Richard Donner was the original director before he was replaced with Richard Lester. Only 25% of his filming made it into the original film. Apparently you can buy it on DVD.
695jW TIL the Unicode standard officially supports the penis symbol as an Egyptian hieroglyph
V7MD TIL that over 2500 left-handed people die every year from using equipment meant for right-handed people