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TIL that according to surveys, Americans are becoming more pessimistic about the American Dream, focusing more on holding on to what they have than moving upwards

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5V5WQ TIL that in 2009 a man checked into a hotel in Sligo, Ireland, gave a fake name and paid in cash. He then got rid of all his possessions and sadly completed suicide. He had cut out all the tags from his clothes so nobody is even sure what country he was from. The case is still unsolved today.
WkxEL TIL Astronauts of Apollo 16 and 17 reported Moon dust to be "soft like snow, yet strangely abrasive, with a taste and smell of gunpowder."
0ww6y TIL California (population 39 million) has a larger economy than France (66mil), India (1.3bil), Italy, Brazil, Canada, South Korea, Russia, and Australia.
g5AL TIL that last surviving witness to the Abraham Lincoln assassination lived long enough to be interviewed about it on television.
ANm4n TIL Top Gun was produced in collaboration with the Pentagon to rebrand the US Navy's image after the Vietnam War and attract new Navy recruits