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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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W7L7L TIL that the Bee Gees didn't write didn't write their music for Saturday Night Fever until post production. All the dance scenes that was done to their music was filmed using other songs.
pY5XG TIL of the Wildrake diving bell accident where two saturation divers became trapped in the bell at 522ft (159m) when both the lift & umbilical, carry power & hot water, became detached. Before rescue could get to them, they died of hypothermia.
Eyw7 TIL that Bill Cosby had a really hard opinion on racism
6pZY TIL there are 365 beads in a military dog chain and 52 on the small chain, used for captured personal to keep track of the days and weeks.
5YlKr TIL: To date, the 3 astronauts of the Soyuz 11 are the only people to have died in space.