The Highest-Paid Female News Anchors of All Time

Rachel Maddow: $20M

Rachel Maddow was the first openly lesbian news anchor to host a major primetime program. Maddow has hosted The Rachel Maddow Show on MSNBC since 2008. Her talk radio show of the same name from 2005 to 2010. 

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  • Following the release of Rocky IV, a joke was making rounds in Hollywood. Since Rocky had run out of opponents, he would have to fight an alien if a fifth movie was made. Jim and John Thomas took the joke seriously and wrote a screenplay based on it, which later became the movie "Predator".
  • The Eiffel Tower was inaugurated the same year Nintendo was founded.
  • The world's most densely populated island is the size of two soccer fields.
  • The population of the United States increases by one person every 12 seconds.
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