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TIL in 2019 the wealth per adult in North America was $417,694.

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N9NE TIL George Hjorth parachuted into France three nights before D-day with three film cameras. His mission was to hide in front of the German lines at Normandy and film whatever happened on the beach. He completed the mission successfully, but the film is lost in the archives.
Mep68 TIL dogs are red-green color blind and 20/75 vision
VBE68 TIL there was a psychiatric hospital in Utah that created a haunted house for the public during Halloween season well into the 1990’s.
VM4V0 TIL that the city of Nice (France) has been firing a cannon shot everyday at noon since 1861, a tradition set by Scottish officer Thomas Coventry More who used the cannon shot to warn his wife he was coming for lunch.
ND7N TIL that France was still executing people by guillotine when Pac Man was introduced