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TIL approximately 62% of Americans have less than $1,000 in their savings accounts and 21% don’t even have a savings account

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Lkpop TIL Japan refuses to recognize its WW2 military atrocities. Instead, they argue it was a war to "liberate" Asian countries from Western imperialism. Even the educational curriculum censors and downplays Japanese war crimes.
4XOya TIL that WW1 could have ended hours earlier, but one man wanted to wait until "the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month". ~11,000 men were wounded or killed waiting for the Armistice to take effect
rQlw TIL when Sun Ra played a gig at a mental hospital, it prompted a patient to talk for the first time in years. The patient walked directly to his piano, and said ‘Do you call that music?’
VMBLG Do not be fooled by its adorable name—the cookiecutter shark attacks by suctioning its lips to the flesh of its victims, spins, and ejects a cylindrical plug of flesh from its prey!
NXdAJ TIL of the discovery of chemotherapy. During WWII it was discovered that mustard gas reduced white blood cell counts. In the 1940s, two pharmacologists examined the effects of mustard gas in treating lymphoma in mice. They then treated a patient with nonHodgkin's lymphoma with the chemical agent.