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TIL In-n-Out Burger Store managers make 160K a year

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EgW17 TIL Alexander the Great had a Hindu Guru who accompanied his army on their return to Persia. After he died via self immolation the army held a drinking contest in his honor, resulting in 42 people dying from alcohol poisoning, including the winner, who drank 13 litres of unmixed wine
69WLl TIL that Michael Jackson was, at one point, one of the biggest song owners on Earth, which included the majority of Beatles songs. And who gave him the idea to acquire song rights? None other than Sir Paul McCartney himself.
8eaDV TIL President Dwight Eisenhower regularly had a supply of Coors beer flown to Washington DC by the US Air Force, at a time when Coors could not be legally sold east of the Mississippi River, and President Gerald Ford once smuggled some back to DC from Colorado in his luggage.
WEWL TIL that shortly after completing ‘Toy Story’, the chief creative staff for Pixar got together for a lunch meeting in 1994 that would become one of the most defining moments in the studio’s history. The Pixar team came up with 4 movies in a single hour-long lunch.
m1ZPp TIL Rob Walton (son of Walmart founder Sam Walton) crashed a 1 of 6 Shelby Daytona Coupe worth more than $14 million.