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TIL the current Earl of Sandwich owns a sandwich restaurant chain

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jYga TIL that in order to qualify for the invitation only Amex Black Card, a person must spend at least $250k/yr, make $1.3mil/yr and have a net worth of at least $16mil
gMlYD TIL a Cantor Fitzgerald employee survived 9/11 because she had been laid off less than 24 hours before the attacks. Afterwards, she learned she had never technically been fired because the HR employees that would have processed her layoff all died on 9/11.
RJZ8 TIL Americans’ religious views are closer to people in developing nations than to the publics of developed nations
PYbNZ TIL babies don't have object permanence, meaning the concept of something existing without them perceiving it is foreign to them. Anything they can't see, doesn't exist.
X0DRQ TIL that Helga Estby made a bet for $10000 that she could walk across the United States to save their farm. After she and her daughter did so, she received no money and found that two of her children had died in the meantime.