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TIL the salary of the President of Laos is $1,600.

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X07GR TIL: In 2011, a Florida senator tried to bring back dwarf tossing, which was made illegal decades prior, arguing that "In this economy, why would we want people from getting gainful employment". In 1989, dwarf tossing was made illegal after one dwarf died of alcohol poisoning.
b68A0 TIL about beating the bounds. Townsfolk in England, Wales, and the US gather and hit local landmarks with sticks. In the past, young boys would be whipped and even be violently pushed into boundary stones. This was to help memorize the boundaries of a community in a time before maps were common.
l78RG TIL about thick water, wich is intended to help people who have trouble swallowing — often called dysphagia stay hydrated and healthy.
X0QZD TIL Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar was an Indian-American astrophysicist who discovered the Chandrasekhar limit—the maximum mass (about 1.4 solar masses) a white dwarf star can have before collapsing into a neutron star or black hole. He won the 1983 Nobel Prize in Physics.
R7eM6 TIL that to attract a mate, male hippos pee and defecate at the same time.