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TIL Astronauts only get paid about $70,000 starting out

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d8Oe7 TIL the human body literally glows, emitting a visible light in extremely small quantities at levels that rise and fall with the day, scientists now reveal. Past research has shown that the body emits visible light, 1,000 times less intense than the levels to which our naked eyes are sensitive.
OGVkg TIL according to the (US) National Earthquake Information Center there are approximately 20,000 earthquakes around the globe each year, or 55 per day, with about 16 major earthquakes in any given year.
epPGb TIL There was a Nazi Summer camp in Long Island in the 1930 that introduced Americans to the Nazi ideology, along with swimming and crafts.
WwKX TIL the Australian Federal Police deliberately refused to provide records proving a pilot was over 1000 miles away from the scene of a rape he was charged with. He served 2 and a half years in jail, during which his infant daughter died.
D15Be TIL That President Andrew Jackson owned a parrot named Poll. When Jackson died Poll was present at his funeral, but had to be removed due to "Swearing and yelling profanities" that he learned from Jackson himself