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TIL the term "house poor," which is anyone whose housing expenses account for an exorbitant percentage of their monthly budget.

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VBQL0 TIL Serge Voronoff was a surgeon who gained fame for his practice of xenotransplantation of monkey testicle tissues onto the testicles of men as anti-aging therapy while working in France in the 1920s and 1930s.
xVePo TIL the Dutch traded the island of Manhattan to the British for Run Island, near Indonesia, for its supply of nutmeg.
nvnY TIL Mark Twain was born during a visit by Halley’s Comet and predicted he would die during its next visit. He wrote “here are these two unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go out together” He died the day after Halley’s Comet returned.
pRXQ TIL John Adams once wrote “one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress.”
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