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TIL some NYC hotdog vendors annually make “significantly more than $440,000.”

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0wjY1 TIL, 146 cryogenically frozen people are buried in the desert waiting for science to resurrect them
D1XKj TIL that the Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, Arabic, Devanagari, Thai, Armenian, Mongolian, Hebrew, and Tibetan writing systems (among others) are all descended from Egyptian hieroglyphs.
7ARp TIL that the deepest Freedive (no air and no fins) is 106 metres deep, which is 66 metres deeper than the maximum allowed depth for recreational scubadiving (with air).
OovJ7 TIL that in 1758, Carl Linnaeus, in his book Systema Naturæ, divided humans into five "subspecies:" the white, sanguine, and powerful Europeans; the yellow, melancholy, and severe Asians; the red, choleric, and stubborn Americans; the black, stony, and lax Africans; and the "wild, monstrous" others.
vBlB TIL: There is a Blue’s Clues that teaches Lucid Dreaming