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TIL that you have to have a net worth of $8.4 million to be considered the top 1% of your fellow Americans

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b9yBp TIL that in 1890 William Morrison invented the first successful practical electric automobile in the United States.
VjkB TIL a senior auditor in the Church of Scientology was stabbed 77 times by her schizophrenic son. In line with rules of the church she refused him traditional mental healthcare, and was told by a Scientologist physician that her son had digestive issues and should be energized with vitamins instead.
GYwMj TIL about the "Linxia cheetah", a fossil cat from China that is now known to have been a forgery. The Linxia cheetah was constructed using a combination of assorted bones and plaster.
Zp9w4 TIL Argentina briefly occupied California
5V5aB TIL the 2004 earthquake/tsunami caused a 1,500m high ridge along the fault to collapse, generating landslides. One landslide consisted of a single block of rock some 100m high and 2 km long. The momentum of the water also dragged massive slabs of rock, each weighing millions of tons, as far as 10km.