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TIL that garbagemen in NYC make more than 100 thousand dollars a year

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wDrJ TIL Jupiter is a “cosmic vacuum cleaner.” Its gravitational influence causes comets and asteroids to collide with it. The rate of impacts on Jupiter is about 2000-8000X higher than the rate on Earth. Without Jupiter, the probability of asteroid impacts with the inner planets would be much greater.
Or1a TIL that Lincoln had depression for most of his life and often contemplated suicide.
o9yK TIL Crows have different warning calls – one for cats, and one for hawks, and another for humans – 250 in all
GB1g TIL A man called Sir Grahame Donald fell out of a Sopwith Camel while doing a loop and then landed back onto his plane wing, climbed back aboard and regained control.
DL8D TIL of a 1995 WHO study that stated “occasional cocaine use does not lead to severe or even minor physical or social problems” was never published because the US threatened to withdraw funding from all WHO projects.