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TIL Moscow, Russia has more billionaires ("миллиардер" in Russian) per capita than anywhere else in the world. 79 billionaires to be exact.

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mWgy TIL Christopher Lee (91), who played Saruman, Count Dooku, etc. is a descendant of the First Holy Roman Emperor Charlemagne. He is a heavy metal singer and recorded a full solo album (2010). He killed Nazis in the British special forces, and even witnessed the last guillotine execution in France
7rmYr TIL Rhode Island was incorporated as The State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations when it declared statehood in 1790.
jNmLN TIL that approximately 2 million (1%) of Americans are pathological gamblers and approximately 1 in 5 of those pathological gamblers attempts suicide.
0YY1 TIL that Elon Musk believes that the United States is “[inarguably] the greatest country that has ever existed on Earth”, describing it as “the greatest force for good of any country that’s ever been” and believes outright that there “would not be democracy in the world if not for the United States”
AE4l TIL that Stephen King has made large charitable donations without announcing them because he was “raised firmly to believe that if you give away money and you make a big deal of it so that everybody sees it, that’s hubris. … you’re not supposed to make a big deal about it”