› added 12 years ago

97

TIL US Congressmen and Congresswomen earn $174,000 to $223,500 a year, have a guaranteed cost-of-living-adjustment, can trade stocks based on the information they get from public office, have great healthcare, and set their own salaries.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

j6jwQ TIL about "All Alone" a "War Pigeon" who relayed a clandestine report from South East France back to the UK in under ~24 hours, and hence earned a "Dickin Medal". This seemingly occurred in the 1940s.
d8xeZ TIL Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak had to submit Tetris scores to Nintendo Power under fake names because he topped the charts for so long they stopped printing his scores
AD1B TIL that Anthony Hopkins prepared for his role as Hannibal Lector by imitating Katherine Hepburn’s warble, and never blinking when he talked to match tapes he watched of Charles Manson.
46RR TIL that 11 squared is 121, 111 squared is 12321, 1111 squared is 1234321, and so on, leading up to 111111111 squared, which is 12345678987654321. Such results are known as palindromic numbers
xV48w TIL: Nearly 250,000 Americans die every year from medical errors, making it the third leading cause of death in the country.