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TIL that some interns at Google earn up to $90,000

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J1P8v TIL Karoly Takacs was a top pistol shooter in the Hungarian Army who missed the 1936 Olympics due to his rank. in 1938 he destroyed his right hand due to an accident, he started shooting left-handed and won Gold in the 1948 & 1952 Olympics.
XExXj TIL about The Great Stink, whereupon during a long hot summer in 1858 the River Thames in London got so stinky, it stopped Parliament carrying out business, and made Joseph Bazalgette an unsung British hero.
gDK7 TIL that Ryan Reynolds only became interested in Deadpool after finding out that the character referred to his scarred appearance as “Ryan Reynolds crossed with a Shar-Pei”
1aB7W TIL that in 1998 Sony launched 700,000 camcorders which unknowingly had the ability to see through people's clothes. They were immediately recalled.
ADm94 TIL of the Anti-Bolshevik League incident. Eventual CCP leader Mao Zedong had 120 political opponents arrested, 17 were murdered. It resulted in another communist army unit revolting, believing Mao was trying to kidnap fellow leaders Zhu De, Peng Dehuai and surrender to the nationalist KMT