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TIL the highest paid player in the WNBA makes less than $100,000

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b9xPa TIL the United Way released 1.5 mil. balloons over Cleveland in '86. They blanketed the town leading to car crashes, an airport shutdown, stampeding horses, and the suspension of a Coast Guard search for 2 missing boaters who eventually washed ashore dead.
40LX TIL A man sued Pepsico after the company refused to redeem his 7,000,000 Pepsi Points for a AV-8 Harrier II jump jet as advertised in their commercial.
Y7v7Z TIL the Leaning Tower of Pisa began to tilt early in it's construction. In an effort to compensate for the tilt, engineers built upper floors with one side taller than the other. Because of this, the tower is curved.
ap6N TIL that the Evil Exes in Scott Pilgrim don’t die when Scott makes them explode into coins. They just respawn at home, apparently having learned their lesson
NRvJ TIL that the clay that the London Underground’s deep level lines were tunnelled through has reached heat saturation, and parts of the Underground that were 14°C in the 1900s can reach 30°C today.