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TIL $30,000 in 1964 is equivalent in purchasing power to about $248,476.45 in 2019, a difference of $218,476.45 over 54 years. The 1964 inflation rate was 1.31%. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics consumer price index, today's prices in 2019 are 728.25% higher than average prices in 1964

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Y71dZ TIL in 1969 Ted Conrad embezzled $215,000 from a bank in Ohio & proceeded to evade capture for the remaining 51 years of his life. He became 'Thomas Randele' & settled in Massachusetts. Described by authorities as a deathbed confession, in 2021 he told his wife & daughter who he was & what he did.
5YEp9 TIL UNESCO’s World Heritage Convention was created to preserve the Temple of Abu Simbel in Egypt. After the Nasser Dam was built, the temple was briefly submerged underwater and a large effort was undertaken to relocate the mountain it was carved on and rebuild the temple piece by piece.
PKBg TIL A Pennsylvania man electrocuted his wife using nipple clamps and tried to pass it off as an accident. He is serving 20-40 years in prison.
neLgY TIL that in 1898, the black majority city of Wilmington, NC was subject to a white mob that expelled opposition black and white political leaders from the city, destroyed the property and businesses of black citizens, and killed 60 - 300 people.
LJg0 TIL in 1946 citizens ended corruption in their small Tennessee town by stealing guns from a National Guard armory, surrounding 50 cops in the town jail, and wounding dozens of officers with bullets and dynamite.