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TIL Magic Johnson earned just over $18 million in salary. In retirement he used that money to launch a business empire called Magic Johnson Enterprises that is valued at over $1 billion today.

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69gXQ TIL Several BP and Transocean executives were on board Deepwater Horizon during the catastrophic explosion. A few of their intentions included maintenance planning, presenting a safety campaign, and congratulating the senior staff of the rig for 7 years of operations without a lost time incident.
P1LbL TIL The heat of the Earth's core has nothing to do with pressure. Rather, most of it is energy produced by radioactive decay and the rest is trapped heat remaining from when the planet formed.
ZleD TIL that a North Korean man holds the world record for the clean and jerk in the 56kg event. He became only the fifth man to ever clean and jerk three times his own body weight. He won gold in the 2012 Summer Olympic games with this feat.
wooe1 TIL in 2011, a Minnesota mom accidentally fell asleep on her baby, killing her, after drinking a fifth of vodka. Nancy Grace labeled her the "vodka mom" and ridiculed her on national TV. Shortly after, she killed herself.
ANlrg TIL: There is an early 19th century slang dictionary which helps adults of that time understand the youth. The slang includes "Cold as a wagon" = dead, "Coot" = idiot, "Exfluncticate" = destroy, and other insults/terms such as chirk, Catawamptiously chewed up, and Guttersnipe.