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TIL that Daniel Day-Lewis’ father was the Poet Laureate of the UK

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9EPB TIL that the highest salaries on the Department of Defense payroll are the head football coaches of the three military academies.
Wx99 TIL In the late 1970s, a cache of nude photos was found containing images of all incoming freshmen at Yale, Harvard, and Princeton, and other Ivy League schools. The reason for the photos is still debated.
yQGLX TIL that Quentin Tarantino used to work as an usher at a movie theater, meaning he got to watch movies for free--but it was a porn theater, and porn movies bored him.
a8vpZ TIL A “pneumonia front” is a unique weather phenomena to the western Lake Michigan shore where temperatures can drop 20-40+ F in less than an hour.
QJ6Nd TIL about "wateraid.org": a charity organization that is "determined to make clean water, reliable toilets and good hygiene normal for everyone, everywhere within a generation". In 2018-19, they brought 206,000 schools clean water, 182,000 schools decent toilets, and 695,000 schools good hygiene.