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TIL The Secret Service was created by Abraham Lincoln the day he was Assassinated

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kJpmE TIL that 'Sticky Vicky' featured in the TV show 'Benidorm' was a real person who actually had that act.
LQBJp TIL that Bruce Willis walked away from the Expendables 3 because he wanted 4 million dollars instead of 3 million (for four days of work).
OoEKL TIL that it's illegal to sleep outside on a refrigerator in Pennsylvania.
xVovg TIL about the Hedonic Treadmill - the tendency of a person to remain at a relatively stable level of happiness despite changes in fortune or the achievement of major goals. As a person makes more money, expectations and desires rise in tandem, which results in no permanent gain in happiness.
7rkK7 TIL the Romans had a sacrificial "door to the underworld" in modern day Turkey where animals would appear to mystically drop dead. The eunuch priests that brought them there were left unscathed because they stood above the lethal cloud of carbon dioxide gas.