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TIL NYC rents have increased 75% since 2000, while median income has decreased 5%

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Eg6k0 TIL: The defunct bank Wachovia laundered $378.4 billion between 2004 - 2007 for the Mexican and Colombia Cartels. They had to forfeit $110mil and were only fined $50mil.
9YomX TIL teenagers take more risk not only due to an undeveloped frontal cortex, but also due to higher dopamine response that provides greater rewards for novel activities
1aoND TIL that HIV/AIDS used to be called "the 4H disease" by the CDC since it seemed to affect mostly Homosexuals, Haitians, Heroin users, and hemophiliacs. The disease was also called GRID by the media, which stood for gay- related immune deficiency.
dy0Z TIL that Stephen King wrote Carrie on an old typewriter while living in a trailer. He threw away the first 3 pages thinking he had written “the world’s all time loser.” His wife fished the pages out and pushed him to finish it. It turned out to be his first published novel.
lo4bA TIL of Henry Lucas, who in 1663 founded a professorship of mathematics at Cambridge University. The "Lucasian Professor of Mathematics" has become hugely prestigious, with holders including Isaac Newton, Charles Babbage, Paul Dirac and Stephen Hawking.