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TIL that the Salvation Army is an actual denomination of the Protestant Church, uses titles derived from military ranks, and has a CEO.

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1Lld TIL that An astounding 47 percent of the residents of the city of Detroit are functionally illiterate.
xVmWw TIL Alfred Thomson, British Artist, became the last person to win a Gold Medal for painting as medals for art. The 1948 Olympic Games in London would be the last time art was a category in the Olympics.
M4Q0 TIL that The Wolf of Wall Street uses the word “fuck”, or its variations, 569 times. Given a running time of 180 minutes, this is 3.16 fucks per minute.
v1xK8 TIL the red line/margins on lined paper were there so when rats and mice chewed it up, the writing would still be intact because they usually wouldn’t eat the paper that far in.
rN6b1 TIL: Rice brokers were extremely influential during the Edo period. Rice brokers provided rice loans, set up the Kyoto central rice market, and introduced paper money. However, inflation, the inability of samurai to pay back their loans, and the debasement of rice ended the rice broker profession.