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TIL about the 'Trinity of Tedium'. The pairing of Dull (Scotland), Boring (US) and Bland (Australia)

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YXeW Today I learned that the great composer Karlheinz Stockhausen, claimed to be from the Sirius star system.
nNyB TIL toilet paper is Costco’s best selling item, selling over a billion rolls at $400 million a year.
MeZ8K TIL that the hardened, outer wing on beetles is called Elytra
9wLMr TIL about "Wicked Problems" which is a term in social policy that It refers to an idea or problem that cannot be fixed, where there is no single solution to the problem; and "wicked" denotes resistance to resolution, rather than evil.
e0Ll6 TIL in 1913, John D. Rockefeller was worth $900 million, or 3% of the entire GDP of the United States that year. His fortune was worth a modern equivalent of $418 billion.