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TIL Bobby Bonilla, a former baseball player, agreed to be bought out and defer his $5.9 million contract in 2000, so that the New York Mets would pay him $1.19 million every year from 2011 to 2035, totalling $29.8 million for a year he didn’t even play.

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e0rQL TIL the term "shoddy" comes from the Civil War when in their rush for uniforms the Union bought ones made from a recycled wool product called shoddy. When it fell apart in rain or after a couple of weeks wear it quickly became synonymous among the troops with poor quality and workmanship.
9bgD TIL in France, it is illegal for grocery stores to throw away edible food. Stores must donate edible, unused food to charity or facilities that process it into animal feed or compost.
9VO7 TIL The bananas we buy in stores and supermarkets are genetically identical clones, all descended from one banana. These bananas are seedless and sterile; natural bananas are short, fat, and have huge seeds.
4Z1X TIL in 2007 the deputy mayor of Delhi, India was killed by a pack of monkeys.
OGDwR TIL The Nile's water discharge is only about 1% the size of the Amazon River. That's 2,600 m3/s (93,000 cu ft/s) of water for a 110 million Egyptians.