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TIL The Rock charges movie companies $1 million to Tweet/IG about his movies

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KOoXJ TIL that George Washington declined to run for a third term of office because he believed his death in office would create an image of a lifetime appointment. The precedent of a two-term limit was created by his retirement from office.
YBBA TIL Drukpa Kunley was a Buddhist Monk who promised women a path to Nirvana through the use of his penis, or “Flaming Thunderbolt” as he liked to call it. The women paid him in beer.
rgZw TIL for those who jumped from the WTC on 9/11/2001, the fall lasted 10 seconds. They struck the ground at just under 150 MPH – not fast enough to lose consciousness while falling, but fast enough to ensure instant death on impact. The deaths of those who jumped were ruled homicide, not suicide.
M7MAV TIL Germany has more deaths from alcohol, than the US has from firearms (per capita, 2020)
KDQ6 TIL that Al Capone’s WWI draft card claimed he was a “paper cutter”