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TIL Carrie Underwood makes $1Million EVERY time she sings the opening for Sunday Night Football ($18Million a season). I’d call that a marketing “loss leader” and another insult to the hard working viewers.

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pYmVb TIL: Baker’s asthma is a type of asthma that is unique to bakers and caused by breathing in flour and grains
ddYB TIL politicians in ancient Rome kept slaves named “nomenclators”, whose sole job was to remind their masters of the names and pertinent details of all the different people they met.
0w4XN TIL that due to specialization of brain hemispheres, dolphins use the right eye to look at unfamiliar objects and the left eye for familiar targets
A5Xa TIL 35 years before the Holocaust, Germany committed one of the first genocides of the 20th century in modern-day Namibia. German forces sealed off the Namib desert leaving up to 100,000 native Africans to die of starvation and exposure.
abL TIL on June 29, 1995, a department store in Seoul, Korea collapsed, killing 500 people. During construction, the owner insisted on adding an unauthorized 5th floor with a swimming pool. When his engineers protested, they were fired.