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N7P6b TIL one of the highest paid jobs in the country is a Harbor Pilot, where they specialize in piloting large cargo ships into shipping ports with precision; they can earn over $400,000 a year
xVDWb TIL During the Great Plague of London, the City Corporation ordered the killing of all cats and dogs, in an effort to prevent the spread of the disease. It's estimated that 40,000 dogs and 200,000 cats were killed, however it was the rats spreading the virus, not cats or dogs.
R7AD7 TIL: in a bid to get people to stop drinking during Prohibition, the US government deliberately poisoned alcohol resulting more than 10,000 deaths across the country
JE5m TIL Buzz Aldrin “McGuyverd” a broken circuit breaker on the Apollo 11 lander with a felt-tip pen, without which Aldrin and Armstrong would have died on the moon
l7e9N TIL that Networks required the credits in Survivorman episodes to be 30 seconds long. Les Stroud didn't think this was long enough to appreciate his crew, he made them 45 seconds. The networks never noticed.