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TIL that since 2011 the first three digits of Social Security Numbers no longer are assigned by geographic location.

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7rvZ TIL one of the most dangerous books ever made, “Shadows From the Walls of Death,” simply contains samples of arsenic-infused wallpapers.
rRBDw TIL: A Belgian priest named Georges Lemaître was the first to suggest the big bang theory as the origin of creation in the 1920s, when he theorized that the universe began from a single primordial atom.
GAXKQ TIL The Osage killings were a series of murders in the 1920s targeting wealthy Osage Native Americans due to oil wealth, revealing a disturbing conspiracy for financial gain.
XEym8 TIL that pet dogs (or wolves) have been a part of human culture since before writing, alcohol, or even agriculture.
4jeg TIL Ben Franklin had a business turning old rag newspapers into pulp & paper. He later got the contract to print US currency & begat the term “rags to riches”