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TIL 50% of bankruptcies are caused by health problems in the US.

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ADvv7 TIL Isaac Singer, the inventor of the Singer Sewing machine had 24 children across the USA, UK and France. Six of these children came from a relationship with Isabella Eugenie Boyer, a 19 year old French woman that the Statue of Liberty was based on. He left $13m estate to his 20 surviving children.
gMn0y TIL that the Wait Calculation suggest that we should not do interstellar travel if we can't get to our destination within 50 years because if the current civilization still can advance in propulsion system velocity, a future mission will pass the previous one and get there faster.
d8EnQ TIL that gargoyles on a 15th century church in Loire-Atlantique, France, now include Gizmo and a Gremlin from "Gremlins" and the xenomorph from "Alien." The characters were added when the centuries-old church was restored in the 1990s.
QJaLX TIL that the contents of your gastrointestinal tract are actually considered to be outside your body until absorbed.
78PlX TIL that a "Meyer lemon" is not actually a lemon, but a hybrid between a citron and a mandarin.