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TIL Superbowl halftime Musical Performers are paid NOTHING for their performance.

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xKn7 TIL contrary to anti-medicare talking points, Canadians on average actually pay less tax than the majority of Americans.
QreE TIL Singapore used to control its population by offering preferential access to education to the children of parents who were voluntarily sterilized.
epgjL TIL L.A. news anchor Chris Burrous died on this date 6 years ago after passing out during a sexual romp with a male companion he met on Grindr. He OD’d after inserting two meth rocks rectally, leaving behind a wife and 9-year-old daughter.
j6rmj TIL that on 9/11 an FBI informant was making a covert recording in WTC 3 and just happened to catch the audio and panic of the first plane hitting the World Trade Center (first plane impact at 1:10:40, second at 1:27:28)
4kmwb TIL after Mary Ann Bevan's husband died in 1914, she couldn't support herself & her 4 children.So since she had developed acromegaly, she decided to capitalize on her appearance & enter an "ugliest woman" contest & won.She was then hired as a "freak show" & made $1.6 mllion in today's money in 2 yrs