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TIL about "Hedonometer," a tool that measures happiness levels in different regions by analyzing tweets.

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eAlD TIL Oskar Schindler became virtually destitute after the war and became bankrupt after trying to raise chickens in Argentina. For the rest of his life, he survived off gifts and donations from the Jews he had saved during the war.
4kXNX TIL hiccups are an evolutionary remnant of amphibian respiration and came before lung respiration. This is supported by the fact that amphibians take in water and air through their gills through a similar mechanism to how we hiccup.
XEpRR TIL skilled archers can shoot arrows so they turn in the air, hitting targets behind obstacles
1a6Q4 TIL after divorcing her foreign husband, Gossip Girl actress Kelly Rutherford got him deported by getting her legal team to report him for alleged business fraud. However, after he won child custody, her children were forced to move to France, and now she must travel there to see them.
RLm7 TIL that estimates place John D. Rockefeller’s personal net worth in today’s money at somewhere between $392,000,000,000 and $663,400,000,000.