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TIL in 2019 the average wealth per adult, globally, was $70,849.

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JrB1 TIL In 2000, amid rampant rumors that Pokemon was the work of the devil, the Pope gave his blessing to Pokemon calling it “full of inventive imagination” and that it did not have “any harmful moral side effects.”
j6MwQ TIL about the Javan Rhinoceros. A critically endangered species of rhino. Currently there are about 76 Javan rhinos surviving in just one country, Indonesia.
yknV TIL too much exposure to Silver (Ag) will turn your skin permanently blue
dy18 TIL that Oxford University is so old, one of its contituent colleges called “New College” was established in 1379.
E1ZKd TIL Axolotls can regenerate limbs, organs and even parts of the brain. They are also 1000x more resistant to cancer than mammals. Despite this, they are critically endangered and almost extinct in the wild.