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TIL a family of three making less than $105,000 a year in San Francisco qualifies for public housing assistance.

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J1R51 TIL Yokozuna was not Japanese but Samoan
gr00b TIL Paschal Beverly Randolph, considered the first to introduce erotic alchemy to North America, promoted sex magic to improve health, love, women’s empowerment, and intelligent offspring. He referred God as both male and female and also believed bodies ran on electric currents, moved by magnetism.
amWo TIL that Albert Einstein wrote an essay about how our politicians and media only represent the interests of the top 1% and how they use misinformation to prevent citizens from coming to objective conclusions or making intelligent use of their political rights.
vm8L TIL when lead was removed from gasoline, there was a dramatic decrease in the violent crime rate in the Western World.
8ea9X TIL that Streaking (running nude in public) was so popular in 1974 that a song called "The Streak" by Ray Stevens made the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart in the US, spending three weeks at the top in May 1974. It sold over five million copies internationally.