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TIL that Patrick Stewart has directed 4 episodes of “Star Trek - The Next Generation”

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69B5Q TIL: There is a study by several PhDs also backed by 45 previous studies, that found out that height impacts salaries. Every inch above average height nets $789. Possible explanations are that tall people are seen as more leader like and the process of "looking down" makes one more confident.
rRYXw TIL of Chiara Vigo, who is the only person alive who knows how to make silk from the highly endangered Noble Pen Shell clam
d8vj8 TIL Jake Perry has owned both of the oldest cats to ever live. He fed them dry food, broccoli, eggs, turkey bacon, coffee with cream and an eyedropper of red wine, played them nature documentaries, built steps on his walls, and an enclosure in his backyard.
8LBZ TIL that in 1921, 300 affluent black people were massacred when white people rioted and razed “Black Wall Street” - Greenwood, Tulsa.
OoZrY TIL Brazil could not afford to send its athletes to Los Angeles for the 1932 Summer Olympics. So they sent coffee bags with them which the athletes had to sell along the way to fund their own travel.