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TIL American Home Ownership is the Lowest Since 1967.

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oGVY TIL that city life is potentially diverging a population of raccoons down an alternate evolutionary path in comparison to their rural counterparts. City raccoons show higher intelligence and just a few decades of city life has changed raccoon populations more than the previous 40,000 years.
P1grO TIL that between 2010 and 2012, Jerome Powell worked on getting Congress to raise the U.S. debt ceiling during the debt-ceiling crisis of 2011. He presented the implications to the economy and interest rates of a default or a delay in raising the debt ceiling. He worked for a salary of $1 per year.
LkkbV Humans have long recognized the song of trees. One biologist argues that listening to forests again can spark a new ecological consciousness, naturally.
Z8Nea TIL the famous blue sinkholes in Yucatán, Mexico are left over features from the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs.
DaXp TIL a previously owned black slave was asked to calculate the number of seconds in 70 years, 17 days and 12 hours in order to prove equality in intelligence between blacks and whites. Not only did he accomplish the feat in 1.5 minutes, but he included the leap years in his calculations.