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TIL the US Homeownership Rate Is Now the Lowest Since 1989

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N7xZQ TIL every century, the moon and the sun's gravity add 1.7 milliseconds to the length of a day. When dinosaurs where alive, they had 23-hour days.
logEa TIL Lord Voldemort’s costume had 7 shades of green for each of his 7 horcruxes. Every time one was destroyed, his cloak lost a shade and faded in color to give the impression he was “fading away”
R5lrj TIL the Little League removed the bunk beds from their dormitories in Williamsport, Pennsylvania after a player fell from an upper bunk and suffered a serious head injury in 2022. The league was also sued for the player's injury because the bunk beds did not have guard rails.
AD1bw TIL of the mysterious Williamson Tunnels in Liverpool, England, a series of extensive subterranean excavations, of unknown purpose.
E1p80 TIL about the Freedom House Ambulance Service, how two young Black men from Pittsburgh (the “Unemployables”) became two of the world’s first paramedics. They operated unofficially and as volunteers, and became the model for all EMS. Later, they were entirely forgotten.