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lnWr TIL that the top three wealthiest presidents in American history were JFK, Washington, and Jefferson
Lojv TIL After Charles Roberts executed 6 children at an Amish school and killed himself, the Amish community comforted the shooters family, set up a charitable fund for them, and 30 members of the Amish community attended the Charles Roberts funeral.
a87Xb TIL Beethoven in his 1822 composition Piano Sonata No. 32 wrote a powerful, heavily syncopated passage that has been described as boogie-woogie, jazz, and ragtime, a style which would not exist for another 70 years.
NwA8 TIL one of the founders of ex-gay conversion therapy Richard Socarides had a gay son whom he privately supported when he came out but continued to insist publicly that ex-gay conversion was possible and that the existence of gay people was caused by poor parenting.
mkOP TIL that in 2009, for the first time in world history, the number of people living in urban areas surpassed the number of people living in rural areas.