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TIL In order to reach “top 1%” status globally, you need to earn around $47,500 per year

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VBg54 TIL: we only ever see one side of the moon due to synchronous rotation
R6Vl TIL in the 1970s, over 700,000 tires, held together by steel, were dumped off the coast of Florida to create an artificial reef. The steel later rusted apart, detaching the tires and causing an environmental disaster.
6DrW TIL that in Veterans Stadium, the visiting football team could see the Eagles Cheerleaders’ dressing room through a hole in the wall
x6E4w TIL About Cape Malays in South Africa. The descendants of enslaved and free Muslims from different parts of the world, specifically Indonesia (known then as the Dutch East Indies) and other SE Asian countries, who lived at the Cape during Dutch and British rule. There are 176,000 remaining.
JYpMQ TIL that scientists have developed measurement formulas so precise that the distance between the Earth and Moon can be calculated with a margin of error smaller than the distance of a red blood cell.