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TIL The us has the highest average disposable income and third highest median disposable income out of any country

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woG51 TIL that Nigeriens are from Niger and Nigerians are from Nigeria
e0Jwn TIL John Leguizamo has legitimate beef with Stevan Seagal, after Seagal slammed his elbow into his neck on the set of a movie
pY0WG TIL that programming used to be considered as menial, unskilled work for underpaid women, and the term "computer" referred to those women who made punch card code to compute long and tedious mathematical calculations (or just did it by hand).