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TIL Bill Cosby fired Lisa Bonet from A Different World because she got pregnant

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LkJWd TIL the British Royal Navy allows sailors to have facial hair, but only if they can grow a "sufficiently thorough beard" within 14 days.
WWDo TIL that after adjusting for inflation, U.S. presidents earn less salary now than any time in American history, at $400k per year. The highest was in 1909, when the POTUS earned approximately $1.9 million in 2012 dollars.
PZDL TIL German was the second largest spoken language in the U.S. before it was forcibly oppressed during the First World War. Americans with German ancestry, are still the single largest ethnic group in the U.S.
9oMr TIL the Hairy frog is known as the “Wolverine frog” because it is thought to intentionally break its toe bones to force sharp “claws” through its flesh as a means of defence.
XEM9D TIL that suicide by volcano is an actual thing with more than 1200 people killing themselves in a single volcano untill a barrier was erected