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TIL Jeff Bezos' wealth is so massive that to him, spending $88,000 is similar to an average American spending $1.

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x4O0 TIL that domestic cats instinctively don’t want to drink from the water bowl next to their food, and therefore seek it out first elsewhere in the house, because in the wild any water next to their kill might be contaminated.
yVe0l TIL: Of a fire that has been burning continuously in Rainham, UK for 10 years exposing residents to toxic fumes
JYbml TIL that hangovers cost the UK economy £1.4 Billion ($1.8Billion) a year.
Xy8X TIL there is a professional Indian cricketer named ‘Napoleon Einstein’ and when asked about his unusual name, said: “We don’t believe in God. In our family, we’re rationalists. Other people are named Krishna and Ram after Gods, so we were named Einstein and Napoleon after great people.”
eJWL TIL one of mathematician John von Neumann’s lecturers said “Johnny was the only student I was ever afraid of. If in the course of a lecture I stated an unsolved problem, the chances were he’d come to me at the end of the lecture with the complete solution scribbled on a slip of paper.”