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TIL that one can work as a fortune cookie 🥠 writer and make $82K per year.

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V50k TIL Marie Curie, a Polish radium physicist in the 20th century was exposed to so much radiation during her life that her notebooks must be kept in lead-lined boxes. They will still be dangerously radioactive for another 1,500+ years.
R5YJj TIL the British Empire banned slave trading in 1807 and used the Royal Navy to enforce it. Any ship caught with enslaved people onboard would be fined £100 a head. As a result, captains often ordered them thrown overboard to avoid the fine whenever they saw Royal Navy ships approaching.
nWEDW TIL Vincent van Gogh, one of the most famous artists in the history of art, only sold one painting in his entire life. and He had part of his ear removed after an argument with fellow artist Paul Gauguin.
EgdKp TIL that God killed a man because he refused to impregnate his dead brother's wife.
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