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

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QBm9 TIL that pupils dilate when multiplying two two-digit numbers.
b9J9p TIL West African food like banku and okra soup serves as an easy way to stretch a meal through inexpensive starches. Proteins like meat and fish are expensive but a soup with a cheap starch can make one piece of meat last for a couple of days instead of just one meal
Bg1pb TIL about Aergia the greek goddess of sloth, laziness and idleness. It is said that she is the guard in the court of the sleep god Hypnos in the underworld.
gMQxX TIL of Chevalier d'Éon - a French spy, dragoon and ambassador who had lived life both as man and woman. Their autopsy indicated they were intersex, and presented masculine in their early life for sake of inheritance.
kLg TIL there’s a bridge in Norway built from Leonardo De Vinci’s drawings 500 years earlier.