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TIL wealth and power cause brain damage that effects empathy and being able to see things from other's point of view.

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7rdRb TIL that Comic Sans is one of the best fonts for people with dyslexia
WRkX TIL a man survived in a sunken ship for nearly three days, 270 feet underwater, in pitch darkness, while listening to fish eat the corpses of his shipmates.
x6ObD TIL a Muslim woman has dedicated her life to watching over the Jewish museum in Morocco
j6y5Q TIL that for the 1889 Exposition Universelle, Eugène Mercier decided to promote his champagne by presenting a gigantic 200,000-bottle champagne sculpted barrel. It was so large that 5 buildings had to be demolished to allow it to pass through the streets to the place where it was to be exhibited.
WEeo TIL: In 1492, the Catholic monarchs of Spain issued a decree banning all Jews from Spain. Sultan Bayezid (a Muslim) then sent the Ottoman navy to Spain to rescue the Jews from the Spanish persecution.