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TIL the Boomer Generation owns 52% of the wealth, despite comprising only 20% of the population

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ANRg4 TIL the song "Hey Man, Nice Shot" was written about the televised public suicide of disgraced Pennsylvania state treasurer Budd Dwyer.
eG7E TIL after Philippe Petit’s famous high-wire performance between the Twin Towers - “the artistic crime of the century” - he was charged with trespassing and disorderly conduct. These charges were dropped on the condition that Philippe put on a free high-wire performance for children in Central Park.
xPAw TIL On September 1997, the $1 billion American warship USS Yorktown’s propulsion system failed. The Yorktown was incapacitated in the Atlantic Ocean for 2 hours and 45 minutes. The propulsion system failure was caused when the software program made an error by dividing with zero.
4X646 TIL that Ursula The Sea Witch is inspired, in both appearance and demeanor, by drag legend and John Waters muse Divine.
LYZQ TIL shortly after returning from the moon and leaving NASA, Buzz Aldrin had a failed career as an Air Force test pilot, started drinking, had an affair, suffered depression, got divorced, got re-married, got divorced again, and became a Cadillac salesman where he failed to sell a car for 6 months.