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TIL that the ban of leaded gasoline is believed to have been a major cause for falling violent crime rates in the United States

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bJnp TIL the highest paid CEO in 2012 made $10,981.74/hr… and that is if he worked 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. If he worked a normal 40 hour 5 day work week, he made $46,250/hr.
9VlD TIL Samuel L. Jackson Has Bad Motherfucker Engraved On His “Star Wars” Purple Lightsaber
xVR1o TIL that if you enter a body of water to escape a swarm of angry wasps they will wait for you to re-emerge so they can continue stinging you
WkVnL TIL the word mile originates from the measurement of one thousand paces of a Roman soldier (mille passus)
kJPDm TIL that flags fly at half-mast or half-staff to make room for an invisible flag of death to be flown above it.