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TIL the Fisker Automotive failure lost the US government at least $600M

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5vpp TIL the University of California pays its coaches more than they do their Nobel winning professors–on average, three times more than the system’s full-time Nobel laureates.
Egb67 TIL Al Pacino's nickname is Cap.
781mZ TIL John Heisman, whom the Heisman Trophy was named for, was Georgia Tech's head coach for its 222-0 game against Cumberland and ran up the score as payback for Cumberland baseball team's thrashing Heisman's coached GA Tech baseball team 22-0 earlier in the same year.
WXZ8 TIL, After bombing of Hiroshima some people moved to Nagasaki, 165 of these survived both the atomic bombings
v1xkx TIL that the initial prints of the painting "Under the Wave off Kanagawa" (AKA The Great Wave) had a pink sky, however, due to light exposure damaging many of the prints, the pink has faded away