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TIL: NFL cheerleaders are only paid $50 to $75 a game

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Qao9 TIL left-spiraling snails are generally as rare as left handed humans, especially because left and right spiraled snails can’t mate together easily, but in Japan snakes gobble up righties easily but can’t bite into the lefties, so there are way more lefties.
9wpXB TIL There's a forum community offering $10,000 if someone can prove they have a 10" Johnson. Almost 700 pages and no dice.
O8Va TIL when the French king Jean II was prisoner of the English, he was allowed to return to France to raise money for his ransom, leaving his son as a replacement hostage. When his son escaped, he voluntarily returned to England, citing reasons of “good faith and honor”.
mVEO TIL that the Washington Monument is the tallest stone structure in the world
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