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TIL garbage collectors in NYC make $144,000/yr, up from $79,000 a decade ago.

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BgZQd TIL The first Papal visit to a mosque was in May 2001. Pope John Paul II took off his shoes and entered the Omayyad Mosque in Damascus, Syria, to visit the tomb of John the Baptist (who is called Yah-ya el-Mamadan by Muslims).
wLngP TIL in 1973 before reality TV, an anthropologist sailed across the Atlantic with 11 attractive people of different races/sex/nationalities. Known as the "sex raft" he'd purposely done this to stoke sexual relations, create tension, and purposely sought danger to see if humans would act like monkeys.
YDDr TIL there is a website to test how much damage a nuclear bomb will do to a surrounding area, how do you fare against north korea’s tested bombs?
oRkLA TIL In 1993, James Scott purposely damaged a levee and caused a massive flood of the Mississippi River only to stall his wife from coming home so that he could party
D19Re TIL: Quentin Tarantino thinks "The Social Network" Is "Hands Down" the Best Film of the Last Decade. "Dunkirk" is second best.