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TIL that if you fall into lava you aren’t going to sink in it.

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Lkogd TIL that it's not illegal for congresspeople to engage in insider trading.
7kp7 TIL adult Norwegian Mcdonald’s workers have a starting salary of over $24 USD an hour
0d9Vy TIL a priceless Roman marble bust was sold at a Texas Goodwill for $35
VBwvD TIL about Leonhard Euler (1707-1783) who not only popularised the use of lower case Pi to denote the ratio of a circle's circumference to it's diameter, but was also the first to use "i" to denote the square root of -1. The constant "e", the base number in a natural logarithm is the Euler Number
R4ja TIL In 1972 Lyle Snider, a Quaker who didn’t want his tax dollars going to fund war, was arrested for claiming 3 billion dependents, the population of the Earth, on his W-4 form. Snider was charged with filing a false and fraudulent withholding form, and sentenced to 9 months in prison.