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TIL that United States Presidents receive a pension of $219,200 per year

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b941Q TIL the United States military pays professional sports teams to display patriotism. Between 2012-2014 the military spent $10.4 million on marketing contracts with teams in the NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL and MLS, while spending $88 million sponsoring a NASCAR racer's car.
8ee1V TIL Otis Redding never heard the completed version of his only No. 1 hit, “Sittin’ On The Dock Of The Bay.”
gOQ8 Today I Learned that a man thinks he traveled to another dimension where The Beatles never broke up. Here’s the story and the supposed songs he brought back.
PeJg TIL that the genetic diversity of Cheetahs is so narrow that unrelated individuals can be as genetically similar as human identical twins
4krbR TIL the 1994 Super Famicom game "Fire Emblem: Mystery of the Emblem" was adapted into a 2-episode anime series in 1996. Hikaru Midorikawa - the voice of Marth - would reprise his role in the Super Smash Bros. series.