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TIL the highest paid CEO in 2012 made $10,981.74/hr… and that is if he worked 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. If he worked a normal 40 hour 5 day work week, he made $46,250/hr.

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DJme TIL In the early 1900s, a group of U.S. government scientists started a private dinner club, in which they only ate poisonous food. They documented their illnesses in order to convince Congress to pass food safety laws. They were called “The Poison Squad.”
oBdoK TIL that the Memory of Mankind has buried modern 'clay tablets' preserving the most important modern knowledge beneath a salt mine in Austria for future generations with clues to decipher them
rpy4 TIL There are NO public or portable toilets provided for the New Years Celebration in Times Square.
eWkD TIL In the Korean War, US mortar teams accidentally ordered hundreds of crates of Tootsie Rolls instead of rounds because the US military sometimes used “tootsie rolls” as code for mortar rounds
BNGr TIL that this creature commonly called Waterbear can survive in outer space and vacuums. It’s resistant to extreme radiation, pressure, and temperatures. They can hibernate for a decade, and are found everywhere on earth from the Himalayas to the deep sea. No one has been able to classify them yet.