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

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WkEX9 TIL that in the middle of the Great Depression, a man placed an offer in an Ohio newspaper, saying: If you’re in trouble, write me. Many people sent him desperate letters, needing things like shoes, a coat, mercy, food, and to save their family from despair. And back came checks, under a pseudonym.
LkArP TIL that in 1995, Theo Müller - head of yoghurt company Müller - was kidnapped and held at gunpoint. Müller threw himself out of the car and promptly returned to work that afternoon.
7reGL TIL There's a PBS TV station in Upstate New York who has more Canadian viewership than American, and therefore signed off every night with the Canadian national anthem and then the U.S. national anthem.
Y76W7 TIL The pedestal of the Statue of Liberty is taller than the Statue itself. Standing at 154 feet tall over the Statue's 151 feet.
R1r1 TIL Cats domesticated themselves 10,000 years ago in the Middle East.