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TIL Only 2% of millennials have excellent credit.

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7rkK7 TIL the Romans had a sacrificial "door to the underworld" in modern day Turkey where animals would appear to mystically drop dead. The eunuch priests that brought them there were left unscathed because they stood above the lethal cloud of carbon dioxide gas.
Y78nW TIL an 'audiophile' once spent $10K to build his own 40-ft utility pole on his backyard just to listen to 'purer music'
x6N4o TIL Julius Evola, an Italian philosopher, would regularly walk around the city during bombing raids to "ponder his destiny". During one such aerial bombardment in 1945, a shell fragment damaged his spinal cord and he became paralysed from the waist down, remaining so for the rest of his life.
po64 TIL two nights before Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier, he broke two ribs when he fell from a horse. He was so afraid of being removed from the mission that he went to a veterinarian for treatment. On the day of the flight, he was in such pain that he could not seal the hatch by himself.
7rY4P TIL: Samuel Morse invented the telegraph after he received a letter of his wife’s failing health… after she’d died.