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TIL that over 2/3 of wealthy Americans drink alcohol daily, but only about 1/3 of poor Americans do.

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1ajNP TIL of Karl May, Hitler's favorite author, a conman who wrote novel's about Old Shatterhand, a German One Punch Man in the Wild West (who May claimed was actually himself, even though he'd never been to the US or even out of Germany at that point).
yVNVX TIL The dwarf planet Haumea, which orbits in the Kuiper Belt out beyond Neptune, is already unusual. It has a strange elongated shape, two moons and a day that lasts only 4 hours, making it the fastest-spinning large object in the solar system.
nKw9 TIL a term for gay used to be “Friend of Dorothy”. In the 80s , the Navy believed that there actually was some woman named Dorothy at the center of a massive ring of homosexual military personnel, so they launched an enormous and futile hunt for the elusive “Dorothy”.
XERB6 TIL avocados evolved to be eaten whole by four ton giant sloths
BZrW TIL that transparent aluminum, which has existed since 1981, can stop a .50 caliber bullet.