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TIL: Only 6% of millennials have a credit score considered excellent.

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5VNAp TIL in 1977, Stu Ungar was bet $100,000 by Bob Stupak (a casino owner) that he could not count down half of a six-deck shoe and then successfully determine what the last 156 cards are. Ungar won the bet.
R5mr4 TIL that electric eel’s zap can transfer genes to nearby animals
EgGEx TIL The Mongols employed a gruesome tactic during the siege of Caffa in Genoa. They hurled the bodies of their comrades, who had perished from the bubonic plague, over the city walls, infecting their enemies and marking one of the earliest instances of biological warfare.
neX8o TIL that Dr. Carlo Urbani recognized the emergence of a outbreak of pneumonia as a new epidemic and immediately notified the WHO, personally flying to Hanoi to investigate. He would die this day in 2003 of SARS, having triggered the most effective response to an epidemic in history.
VnJQ TIL that the Michigan Theater, once one of the most beautiful pieces of architecture in the Midwest, is now used as a parking garage.