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TIL Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has had the same salary of $81,840 since 1998.

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JPD1 TIL . There is no Beatles music on the Voyager (Interstellar Spacecraft) Golden Record because EMI said no.
1aDkr TIL the Canadian government spent $28 million centuries after the War of 1812 to promote Americans as invaders in “a war of independence” for Canada, which became a country in 1867.
wB4Y TIL That Grover Cleveland had cancer and had surgery in secret on his yacht. This was to avoid the stigma about cancer at the time.
KZbw TIL a tortoise named ‘Harriet’ died in 2006 at the age of 176. To put that into perspective, she was a pet of Charles Darwin in 1835 and lived until blu-ray discs were available.
dxar TIL that MLK’s mother was herself assassinated shortly before the evidentiary hearing for James Earl Ray, who the King family believes is innocent.