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TIL in 2013 the president of Finland Sauli Niinistö voluntarily took a 20 percent pay cut due to the country's difficult financial situation

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0db7N TIL of a giant centipede that hangs from cave ceilings and catches and eats bats
Y7J8W TIL a 2005 Harris Interactive poll conducted over the phone asked U.S. adults if they always washed their hands after various situations. 91% said they always washed their hands after using public restrooms but when observers went to U.S. public restrooms they found only 83% of the people there did.
xRl5 TIL that Whitey Bulger, the notorious gangster, had served time in the maximum security prison of Alcatraz for four years. Later, while on the lam as one of America’s most wantef federal fugitives, he went back to tour the facility.
8VPb TIL the family of a deceased man in Winter Haven, Florida claimed the cause of his death was an upper-cut from Batman in his newspaper obituary notice.
wLaa6 TIL of the TV Listing for the Wizard of Oz: "Transported to a surreal landscape, a young girl kills the first person she meets and then teams up with three strangers to kill again."