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TIL That Adam Sandler is the 5th highest paid actor in Hollywood. He earns more per film than Tom Cruise, Johnny Depp, and Leonardo Dicaprio.

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oB9pr TIL in Equador, ambulances have the ability to take over car radios to warm drivers. This has resulted in a 40% reduction in response times
P14KL TIL The Amazing Jonathan, late comedian and magician, was married to, and managed by, Anastasia Synn, a transhumanist, biohacker, and cyborg rights activist. She holds the Guinness World Record for most technological implants in the female body and has the largest magnet ever implanted in a person.
Nb18 TIL lighter skin and hair pigments in early Eurasian humans may have been due to interbreeding with neanderthals
9wQJM TIL of Zazous, French youths in World War Two who dressed in "big or garish clothing", listened to Jazz and got into conflict with fascists
xjr0 TIL a 1995 television documentary film called “The Dying Rooms” was made about Chinese state orphanages. The film documents rooms where babies and children (mostly disabled/female) were left to die of thirst or starvation as it was illegal to kill a child directly but not through neglect.