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TIL one of the chief executives of American Motors had a habit that every time he thought his salary and bonus was too high for a year, he would give the excess back to his company.

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4kDRg TIL Earth is currently going through an Ice Age, which started 3 million years ago, however, 11,000 we entered a warm inter-glacial cycle.
eg9J TIL Roger Ebert said the 2004 film National Treasure was “so silly that the Monty Python version could use the same screenplay, line for line.”
yQg4v TIL that Lenin's body is on public display in Moscow and has been almost all the time since his death 96 years ago.
KNAJ TIL that Ernest Hemingway lived through anthrax, malaria, pneumonia, dysentery, skin cancer, hepatitis, anemia, diabetes, high blood pressure, two plane crashes, a ruptured kidney, a ruptured spleen, a ruptured liver, a crushed vertebra, and a fractured skull.
glEy TIL that 20,000 leagues below sea level would put you through the Earth and almost 20% of the way to the moon’s orbit. “20,000 Leagues Under The Sea” refers to the distance traveled while underwater, not the depth reached.