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TIL that auctioneers average a salary around $46,000 USD

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J5KQ TIL In 1964, Gary Flandromwas tasked with studying techniques for exploring the outer planets. He discovered that a rare alignment of the outer planets would occur in the late 70’s and came up with the Planetary Grand Tour which allowed for the Voyager program to happen.
PgpL TIL Stephen King thought Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining “was not a good adaptation of his novel and is the only adaptation of his novels that he could ‘remember hating’.
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e0xDL TIL Hallmark movies take 3 weeks to film with a $2mil budget.