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TIL the average yearly salary for a stripper is $125,000

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Oo7Xa TIL according to a 2011 lawsuit the premise of the movie Sister Act was stolen from a nun’s 1987 autobiography detailing a real life similar situation.
989B TIL that a toilet was dropped as a bomb from an airplane during Vietnam war
lVK5 TIL that blond hair in humans developed only 11,000 years ago as an evolutionary response to the lack of sunlight in Northern Europe to enable more Vitamin D synthesis.
ADK6a TIL the plague that wiped out 50% of 14th Century Europe was never really eradicated. There is an average of 7 cases of plague every year in the US. The disease usually spreads through flea bites or by eating tainted meat. It usually hits the rural west of the US. (2:04)
nWjGr TIL that during WW2, German pilots in North Africa would wrap Coca-Cola bottles in wet towels and attach them to the wings before takeoff, so that it would be cold when they landed and needed a drink.