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TIL Pilots have a better return for the cost of their education than doctors or lawyers

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Oo1PX TIL: Researchers report that they used newly discovered gut bacteria enzymes to convert type A blood to type O at a rate faster than ever before.
4xX6 TIL: Richard Nixon plotted an assassination to Jack Anderson by poisoning him or putting LSD on his Steering Wheel after Jack exposed corruption throughout his political career. The only reason the plot wasn’t carried out was because of the Watergate scandal.
VMNnG TIL Sub-Saharan Africans were the first people to smelt iron
Z8eKp TIL that, as a vice presidential nominee in the 1824 election, John C. Calhoun was the running mate of both noted rivals John Quincy Adams & Andrew Jackson.
xVLwg TIL that a production of The Nutcracker can generate 40 - 45% of annual revenue for major American ballet companies.