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TIL 40% of Americans can't come up with $400 in an emergency

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8apBL TIL Project Grizzly is a documentary about a Canadian man who, inspired by Robocop and a bear encounter, determined to make bear-proof body armor. In it he's beaten with 2X4s, thrown off a cliff, and slammed into by a truck at 50km/hr. It's one of Quentin Tarantino's favorite documentaries.
1L0X TIL that Shakira was once banned from her school choir because according to her music teacher, she couldn’t sing and sounded like a goat.
AD8oo TIL about Benin City - a wealthy, highly advanced and prosperous city in Africa that was rich in architecture, culture and trade. It even had underground drainage and street lights. The British Empire completely destroyed it in 1897 because they refused to be ruled by Britain.
OApg TIL:Nikola Tesla disagreed with the theory of atoms being composed of smaller subatomic particles, stating there was no such thing as an electron creating an electric charge
oBl5r TIL the 80s Disney Channel film "Not Quite Human" was based on a YA novel series which has 6 books.