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TIL that approximately 1 out of every 10 adults in the US are millionaires

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VLJG TIL that Nestlé are draining developing countries water only to make them buy it back.
69LBY TIL that mentally disabled patients at the Judge Rotenberg Center aren't allowed to talk to each-other and will get punised if they do so, employees also can't chat with other employees, it's even encouraged for employees to rat each-other out if they try to have conversation
RkNw TIL there is a theoretical transatlantic tunnel that would allow for a 54 minute trip between New York and London.
lojgr TIL that famous scientist Tycho Brahe, who had a nose made from gold, revered dinner conversation so much that he refused to leave to relive himself, causing his untimely death from a burst bladder.
Z8Mwp TIL the saying “when one door closes, another opens" is a Alexander Graham Bell quote which he then followed by saying "but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.”