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0w68M TIL Indian housewives hold 11% of the world's gold. This is more than the reserves of USA, IMF, Switzerland, and Germany put together.
8eEjb TIL - about an 11-year-old boy from the Netherlands who won a Wolfson economics prize for his solution, with a pizza analogy, to the Greek debt crisis
R7P79 TIL Danica McKellar, the actress who played Winnie Cooper on the Wonder Years, went on to write six books on mathematics, including "Hot X: Algebra Exposed," "Kiss My Math," and "Girls Get Curves: Geometry Takes Shape."
DD9D TIL that solitary confinement can cause neurological damage that is so profound it can be seen on EEG-scans and “the brain may become as impaired as one that has incurred a traumatic injury”
wLerJ TIL then 13 year-old Danielle Lei, a Girl Scout in San Francisco, was the first Girl Scout to make news by selling cookies outside a marijuana dispensary. She sold 117 boxes in 2 hours.