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TIL 114 billionaires have pledged to donate the majority of their wealth to philanthropy as part of a project led by Bill Gates and Warren Buffett.(X-post from worldnews)

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yEvv TIL Tea is the most popular manufactured drink consumed in the world, equaling all others – including coffee, chocolate, soft drinks, and alcohol – combined
awyNN TIL from the 1960s to 1990s, Pan Am flight attendants were required to be under 130 pounds.
DWnp TIL men pay 97% of alimony, make up 94% of work suicides, make up 93% of workplace fatalities, 79% of all suicides, 78% of all homicide, are over twice as victimized by strangers than women, 82% of the prison population is male and men are 165% more likely to be convicted than women.
M7yba TIL: Grasshopper are nearly 200 million years older than grass.
x6beD TIL of the "Shoe Fitting Flouroscope" or "X-Ray Shoe Fitter" which existed in shoe stores up until the 70's - Allowing customers (mostly children) to look through a viewer at a live X-Ray of their feet, to see the bones of their toes and how they lined up with the stitching of the shoe's sole.