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  1. TIL The cast of FRIENDS each made $1M per episode in the final two seasons and now make $20M per year per cast member for reruns. The show still generates $1B/year for Warner Bros. All thanks to David Schwimmer encouraging the cast to negotiate as a team.

    132011 upvotes • 5413 comments • aug 11, 2020

  2. Rhea county high school in TN today. No social distancing, and nary a mask.

    120686 upvotes • 6526 comments • aug 11, 2020

  3. Guy refuses to have his temperature checked, tries to beat the Hotel employee, gets his ass kicked.

    113237 upvotes • 3545 comments • aug 11, 2020

  4. Schrödinger's cat

    101897 upvotes • 498 comments • aug 11, 2020

  5. Ever wonder who makes those big ass fans at IKEA?

    101476 upvotes • 2318 comments • aug 11, 2020

  6. It's time to implement a 4-day workweek, Andrew Yang says. The pandemic has made it important now more than ever.

    98572 upvotes • 4678 comments • aug 11, 2020

  7. TIL a US law firm set up honeypots on torrent-sharing site The Pirate Bay and then sued people who downloaded their torrents. The matter reached the FBI and the pirate site accepted to collaborate with the feds resulting in the crooked lawyers getting jail time.

    90399 upvotes • 1968 comments • aug 11, 2020

  8. TIL that, in the American West of the 1800s, up to one in four Texan cowboys was African American. The number of Mexican cowboys was even greater.

    88269 upvotes • 3558 comments • aug 11, 2020

  9. An ancient relic

    86443 upvotes • 2657 comments • aug 11, 2020

  10. They never even gave this man a chance to comply before gunning him down!

    86172 upvotes • 4332 comments • aug 11, 2020