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TIL that, because of his personal wealth from his acting career, Arnold Schwarzenegger did not accept his governor’s salary of $175,000 per year during his time in office.

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XEEPk TIL that the "noon bell ritual" is the celebration of the succesful defense of Belgrad against the Ottoman Empire's siege in 1456
QJ9LM TIL about John Howard Griffin, who is best known for his project to temporarily pass as a black man and journey through the Deep South of 1959 to see life and segregation from the other side of the color line.
X07Y6 TIL that six doctors devised an experiment where they each swallow a Lego head as a means to determine the typical transit time of a commonly swallowed object. They then presented their findings with a 'Found and Retrieved Time' aka 'FART' score. The FART score averaged 1.71 days
Oo1M4 TIL of Du Yuesheng, a Triad boss who was granted the rank of general in the Nationalist Chinese army after he ordered his gang to massacre 1000s of communist supporters. He then became head of the Opium Suppression Bureau, which he used to seize opium to be sold by his own criminal organization.
Bmmy TIL: Research from Moscow State University & the University of Iowa discovered that crows exhibit strong behavioral signs of analogical reasoning—the ability to solve puzzles like “bird is to air as fish is to what?” Analogical reasoning only develops in humans between the ages of three & four.