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TIL that 90.4% of internet users don’t use Twitter.

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kXWm TIL The original creator of Star Trek, Gene Roddenberry, was also friends with L. Ron Hubbard, the creator of Scientology, and boasted that he, too, could have started his own religion if he wanted to.
OORX TIL that banks have therapists known as ‘wealth psychologist’ who help ultra-rich clients who are unable to mentally cope with their immense wealth.
WQA9 TIL on October 20, 1944, an above-ground natural gas storage tank began to leak. The gas eventually made its way into the sewers of Cleveland and ignited, blowing manhole covers miles away and shooting flames up through the plumbing of homes. 130 people were killed.
XLXX TIL that Rose Leslie (“Ygritte”) grew up in a castle ;her father being the chieftain of Clan Leslie. Kit Hartington (“Jon Snow”) is a distant cousin
JPPV TIL China is building a car-free city from scratch for 80,000 residents - it “will use 48% less energy and 58% less water than a more conventional city of the same size; it will also produce 89% less landfill waste and generate 60% less carbon dioxide.”