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TIL that when someone is poor from spending their money on luxuries instead of necessities, they are living in "secondary poverty".

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lgxV TIL in 1981, a pediatrician saved the life of a 3.2-pound premature baby boy by working around the clock to beat the odds & stabilize him. In 2011, the pediatrician was pinned inside a burning vehicle after a car collision, but was saved by the premature baby, who had grown up to become a paramedic.
v9Qj TIL that child chimney sweep apprentices had to crawl through vertical mazes of chimneys and frequently were left to die when they became stuck
E1bD7 TIL that Ray Bradbury said that Fahrenheit 451 is not about government censorship but about social censorship where the people are the culprit.
KkKQ TIL Florida law allows people to smash car windows to save pets from overheating
E1WRd TIL Saul Goodman from Breaking Bad is a play on words, for "It's All Good Man"