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TIL Gen Z dollars today have 86% less purchasing power than those from when baby boomers were in their twenties

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A8do TIL 34% of black males in Alabama have permanently lost their right to vote due to prior convictions
lkjG TIL dolphin communication follows a linguistic rule that unites human languages, called Zipf’s law. The law states that the frequency of a language’s common words follow a trend — the most common word in a language appears twice as often as the second most common word.
Y7YBZ TIL Tom Hanks is related to Abraham Lincoln through a distant family connection. He is a third cousin, four generations removed, from the 16th U.S. president.
d8vZ7 A wheel of parmesan cheese can cost over $1,000. A single wheel takes at least one year to age, 131 gallons of milk to make, and it can only be made in a restricted area in northern Italy, in the region of Emilia Romagna.
LJZP TIL the Australian women’s national soccer team played a team of 15 year old boys to prepare for the summer Olympics in Rio and lost 7-0.