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TIL Rich Clifford had parkinsons disease and hid it from NASA to fulfill his dream of being an astronaut.

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BEJb TIL Portugal decriminalized all drugs eleven years ago and the number of addicts has been halved since then.
JYP6v TIL Pat Sajak and Vanna White work only 36 days per year. They work 4 days per month for 9 months, filming six episodes of Wheel of Fortune from 12 noon to 6pm. It amounts to a full year’s worth of programming for ABC.
Memx7 TIL that almost every fictional character can be easily categorized into one of twelve different character archetypes.
Mel5A TIL that there have been actual scientific studies comparing apples and oranges in order to prove that you can in fact compare apples and oranges. One such study conducted by a NASA researcher named Scott Sandford used infrared spectroscopy to analyze and compare the fruits.
R77a8 TIL the most dangerous job in the world is that of the South African farmer, with 156 deaths per 100,000