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TIL “Chumlee” is paid $25,000 per episode of Pawn Stars.

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mKKM TIL of Ning Li, who claimed to discovered antigravity, was hired by the DoD and paid 500k a year, but never heard of again publicly.
pvaO TIL that JJ Thompson won the Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering that electrons act as particles, while his son GP Thompson won the Nobel Prize for discovering that electrons act as waves.
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69r8J TIL that there is a museum called Real Bodies: The Exhibition in Las Vegas that exhibits real human bodies preserved through a process called plastination. This allowed for full body displays in dynamic poses.