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TIL Marvel pays Stan Lee $1 million per year for life

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WWld TIL Matt White, former promising minor league baseball pitcher, bought 50 acres of land from his aunt for $50k so she could go into a nursing home. The land ended up being solid Goshen stone, and estimated to be worth about $2.5 billion
0wWlL TIL a single U.S. Supercarrier has more combat aircraft than 70 other countries have in their entire military
XyVD TIL that the little people that played Munchkins in the Wizard of Oz had drunken orgies in the hotel where they were staying, with an unholy assembly of pimps, hookers and gamblers. They needed police on about every floor to contain them.
vPbnR TIL Laverie Vallee (née Cooper; July 18, 1875 – February 6, 1949), best known by her stage name Charmion, was an American vaudeville trapeze artist and strongwoman. One of her risqué trapeze acts was captured on film in 1901 by Thomas Edison.
166vD TIL E. Herbert Norman, the Canadian ambassador to Egypt (1950s), was slandered as a communist by America, pushing him to the point that he threw himself off a building in Cairo. The Canadian public would develop immense anti-American sentiment afterwards, leading to the election of John Diefenbaker