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TIL Only 16% of private sector workers are offered pensions. The rest offer 401ks

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rNld1 TIL Thomas Wedders (also known as Thomas Wadhouse) was an 18th-century circus performer who is said to have had the world's longest nose. His nose was allegedly 7.8 inches (20 cm) long. He was born in Yorkshire, England, around 1730 and died around 1780.
RNVa TIL that in 2008, a computer simulation of a China vs. America war was run. The U.S. lost.
4X5AX TIL that comedian Fred Armisen's parents were born in Venezuela and in Germany. His grandfather though was Korean who adopted a Japanese name after the Kantō massacre of Koreans in 1923. He became a dancer, and while working for Nazi Germany during WW2, was a spy for the Empire of Japan in Europe
VeJQ TIL of black musician Daryl Davis, who dissolved Maryland’s KKK by befriending its members.
01vv TIL that a NY police officer was admitted to an asylum for uncovering wrongdoings within the police