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TIL most American households don't have an electric kettle.

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vDbx TIL 4 Americans have the same amount of wealth as 40% Americans combined.
oRyjo TIL of Hugo Gernsback. Among other things, The Hugo Awards were named after him. He founded Amazing Stories, the first sci-fi magazine, in 1926. He even received his own Hugo Award in 1960.
kO9J4 TIL the last known win at chess by a human against a top performing computer under normal tournament conditions was in 2005
8amYZ TIL The first attempt to make an anti-Nazi film in America was Herman J Mankiewicz's "The Mad Dog of Europe" in 1933. The film floundered in early production and was ultimately never produced because no studio would risk being banned in Germany.
6Pe8 TIL major cities like New York, Paris, and Toronto create and maintain fake building fronts in urban centres to conceal vent shafts and utilities. The ‘property’ in Brooklyn concealing a 19th century vent shaft is worth over 2 million!