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

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4XOd5 TIL that Mississippi didn't ratify the 13th Amendment until 2013, when a college professor decided to do some research after watching the film 'Lincoln' and noticed that Mississippi had never officially ratified it.
rNV6w TIL that There are more trees on Earth than Stars in the Milky Way
E1vGx TIL there is a dialect of Arabic that isn't naturally spoken anywhere, but which is understandable to all speakers of Arabic. While people from Egypt, Iraq, Sudan, Yemen or Syria might not understand each other, they can understand the same news report.
8eb58 TIL: The foam hand prototype was created by a high school student in 1971 for a basketball tournament
6w4Z TIL in Australia there is a stinging plant so painful that can drive a man to suicide.