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TIL over 75% of Visually Impaired Americans are Unemployed

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nnZd TIL that there was enough leftover footage from the first anchorman movie to make a second one.
wbQ7 A Chinese billionaire once charged a $170 million painting to his Amex card just to accrue the points. [NSFW painting]
9Xdp TIL Pioneer 10, a space craft meant to study Jupiter which was launched 2 March 1972, was only meant to send signal to Earth for 3 years, but it continued to send signal for over 30 years while heading towards the center of our galaxy.
e0xg4 TIL the Milano cookie was created as a result of Pepperidge Farm's original cookie the Naples, a single vanilla wafer with dark chocolate filling on top. When shipped to warmer climates, the cookies would end up stuck together. The company resolved the problem by sandwiching Naples cookies together.
nWVOB TIL that in 2006, the body of Pablo Escobar was exhumed to perform a paternity test (and to squash rumors that the body wasn't actually his). The exhumation was broadcast on national TV.