TIL $2000 is not enough to have a proper job done in the assassination business
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Today I learned
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TIL that the Gulf of Mexico is supposedly now “The gulf of USA” 😐- super late to this
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1ml87y8/til_that_the_gulf_of_mexico_is_supposedly_now_the/
Gulf of Mexico naming controversy - Wikipedia
TIL CEO Dan Price cut his $1.1M salary to $70K so all employees would earn at least that much. Critics called him a “socialist lunatic" and predicted the company would go bankrupt but the move paid off: Revenue tripled, employee turnover fell, workers paid off debt, bought homes and started families
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1ml4l89/til_ceo_dan_price_cut_his_11m_salary_to_70k_so/
The boss who put everyone on 70K
A tech boss introduced a $70,000 minimum salary for all his staff - by cutting his own wages. Five years, on he has no regrets.
TIL That the current 50-State U.S. Flag was designed by a 17 year old in 1958 for a high school project. The flag was submitted to the White House after the student was told he could raise his B minus on the project if the flag was accepted by the government.
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1ml13ee/til_that_the_current_50state_us_flag_was_designed/
National Flag Foundation
The High Schooler Who Designed The 50-Star American Flag - National Flag Foundation
While most of his high school classmates took a more conventional approach for their class project, Bob G. Heft decided to do something a little mo...
TIL From 1868 until 1913 in the US, 90% of all federal revenue came from taxes on liquor, beer, wine, and tobacco.
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1mjxlaw/til_from_1868_until_1913_in_the_us_90_of_all/
Fiscal Data Explains Federal Revenue
Check out @FiscalService Fiscal Data’s new federal revenue page! #FederalRevenue
TIL that the monkey frequently on NBC’s Today Show in the 1950s and 60s, J. Fred Muggs, is still alive and living in obscurity in Florida.
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1mj0ekr/til_that_the_monkey_frequently_on_nbcs_today_show/
J. Fred Muggs - Wikipedia
TIL "Edelweiss" is not the Austrian national anthem or even a folk song. It was written in 1959 for The Sound of Music.
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1mbtnz4/til_edelweiss_is_not_the_austrian_national_anthem/
Edelweiss (song) - Wikipedia
TIL about Williams Syndrome, a genetic condition that makes people more friendly and sociable aswell as soemewhat intellectually disabled and results in "elefin" facial features and a host of physical problems.
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1m8bxh5/til_about_williams_syndrome_a_genetic_condition/
Williams syndrome - Wikipedia
Til that Uranus (the planet) smells like farts.
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1m861ss/til_that_uranus_the_planet_smells_like_farts/
ABC7 Los Angeles
Scientific study: Uranus smells like rotten eggs, sewage
A group of scientists published a study about the gases found in Uranus' atmosphere.
TIL That Cop killer Donald Eugene Webb was on the FBI’s Top 10 Most Wanted list for longer than anyone else at the time, and never captured. Turns out the reason for that is his wife was secretly hiding him at her own house and after he died she buried him on her property.
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1m6aj5l/til_that_cop_killer_donald_eugene_webb_was_on_the/
Donald Eugene Webb - Wikipedia
TIL that Melbourne is 20km closer to Antarctica than is to Darwin Australia.
https://www.ricklecouteur.com/post/melbourne-closer-to-antarctica-than-to-darwin
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1m243ch/til_that_melbourne_is_20km_closer_to_antarctica/
TIL the Star Spangled Banner has more lyrics than what we are ever taught and shown.
https://starspangledmusic.org/the-star-spangled-banner-correct/
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1m09iiy/til_the_star_spangled_banner_has_more_lyrics_than/
TIL: The opposite of "synonym" is "antonym"
https://www.wordhippo.com/what-is/the-opposite-of/synonym.html
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1lwzyj8/til_the_opposite_of_synonym_is_antonym/
TIL Alexander Fleming on discovering penicillin was quoted as saying: “When I woke up just after dawn on September 28, 1928, I certainly didn’t plan to revolutionise all medicine by discovering the world’s first antibiotic, or bacteria killer. But I suppose that was exactly what I did.”
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1ltr8ih/til_alexander_fleming_on_discovering_penicillin/
Alexander Fleming - Wikipedia
TIL that Dexter Holland, lead singer of punk rock band the offspring has a PhD in molecular biology
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1lsmbje/til_that_dexter_holland_lead_singer_of_punk_rock/
Dexter Holland - Wikipedia
TIL about a congential disorder in humans where the walls of the bladder, vagina, and anus fuse together, creating a cloaca
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1lrzpyu/til_about_a_congential_disorder_in_humans_where/
Persistent cloaca - Wikipedia
TIL that it is possible for additional roadways to create more traffic rather than alleviate it, known as Braess' Paradox
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1lq1qt6/til_that_it_is_possible_for_additional_roadways/
Braess's paradox - Wikipedia
TIL that, immediately after John F. Kennedy was assassinated, an order came down from the Secretary of the Navy to destroy all personal logs associated with the use of the presidential yacht USS Sequoia during the Kennedy Administration.
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1lpjd9n/til_that_immediately_after_john_f_kennedy_was/
USS Sequoia (presidential yacht) - Wikipedia
TIL Jennifer Aniston had a strained relationship with her mother, who was a former model and very critical of her looks. She recalls not being the 'model child' her mother had wished for.
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1lp936o/til_jennifer_aniston_had_a_strained_relationship/
Best Life
Jennifer Aniston Says Model Mother Was "Very Critical" of Her Looks — Best Life
Jennifer Aniston Says Model Mother Was "Very Critical" of Her Looks
TIL that France's deadliest day in WWI was August 22, 1914. Following a series of reckless offensive charges, 27,000 French soldiers were killed in less than 24hrs. This figure is more than any other day in French history, and is half as many as all U.S. soldiers killed in the entire Vietnam War
https://www.reuters.com/article/lifestyle/a-slaughter-then-oblivion-mark-fr…
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1l0nveh/til_that_frances_deadliest_day_in_wwi_was_august/
