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TIL Waterboys in the NFL make an average $53,000 salary

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EgkNp TIL about the 2007 South Korea oil spill, one of the worst oil spill in SK, had over a million volunteers joined in on the campaign to clean the disaster in less than 3 months.
Ye8x TIL Ellie Kemper (Erin from The Office) came from a family of millionaire bankers and philanthropists. She went to Princeton and Oxford before pursuing comedy from the ground up.
W7MaN TIL Abraham Lincoln was attending a performance of the comedy "Our American Cousin" when John Wilkes Booth killed him. Booth timed the shooting with the show's funniest moment so that the crowd's laughter would drown out the sound of the shooting.
AgVo TIL F. Scott Fitzgerald made Ernest Hemingway look at his penis to see if it was of average size because Fitzgerald’s (somewhat insane) wife Zelda said the size of his penis could, “never make any woman happy”.
lQ4V TIL that the Catholic church objected Lightning rods until a gunpowder explosion in Brescia caused by a lightning strike killed 3000.