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TIL that Snoop Dogg is paid $500k a day plus expenses as a special correspondent for NBC until the end of the Olympics. Snoop Dogg will allegedly cash in a whopping total of $8m for the entire 16-day span of the Paris 2024 Olympics.

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ADpAw TIL that in the Great Depression, there was a fleet of "book women" who delivered books, regardless of weather, to rural communities in Appalachia. These women would ride 100-120 miles every week on horseback, traversing dangerous terrain, to ensure that their readers received their books on time.
nG8b TIL The post office in Bedrock, Colorado receives so much fan mail addressed to characters from ‘The Flintstones’ that they have a special stamp for rejecting the mail that says 'Return to Sender - Fictitious Cartoon Character’
wLyD1 TIL The crucial reason why manholes are round is because a round lid cannot fall into a round opening whereas a square lid can fall into a square opening diagonally
PY54G TIL Finland's 'housing first' policy requires the government to give people living on the street a free house before any financial aid. This model has proven to get people on their own feet much quicker and is being replicated by other European countries.
kOBM1 TIL there is a philosophical concept called the explanatory gap which is used to describe the inability to describe concepts. For instance, it is impossible to describe a color to a blind person and have them accurately understand and visualize that color.