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TIL that the three highest paid employees of the Department of Defense are Football coaches for the Military, Navy, and Air Force Academies, with one making $1.6mil in 2012.

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OoAxX TIL a study found that brains of doers differ from brains of procrastinators. Procrastinators have a larger amygdala/poorer connection with the part that helps focus by blocking competing emotions/distractions, which shows that emotional mgmt is more problematic than time mgmt in procrastination.
nW9QG TIL that when Roland Ratzenberger died in a crash in the Formula1 race in Imola in 1994, the car computer registered a deceleration of 500 G, the highest ever recorder in an F1 car.
XEMKj TIL Sir Isaac Newton had a dog called “Diamond” who knocked over a candle and set fire to twenty years worth of his research.
X069k TIL the allowable FDA limits of maggots, larvae, insect parts, rodent hairs, excrement, and other “filth” in food items
XQjQ TIL a man created an armored bulldozer in secret, and used it to exact revenge on a town before killing himself. It cost the town $7M in damages