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TIL Homeless children in the 90’s in Miami developed their own elaborate mythology.

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D1ObY TIL Henry Winkler is an honorary OBE awarded to him by Queen Elizabeth II for services to children with special educational needs and dyslexia in the UK
rxV4 TIL a former millionaire has lived mostly alone on an island nearly 30 years - since the stock market crash of 1987
grDQW TIL the House of Saud, the ruling royal family of Saudi Arabia, is comprised of 15K family members (although a majority of the wealth is only held by about 2K of them) and is estimated to be collectively worth $1.4 trillion. For reference, that’s nearly 16 times the British royal family’s net worth.
loOpV TIL That Napoleon demanded a method of communication that would not require light or sound. Therefore ‘Night Writing’ was developed as a tactile military code, but proved too difficult for Napoleon’s troops to learn and was rejected. Night writing became the basis for braille.
X17X TIL Firefighters use water to fight fire becasue it expands to steam and displaces oxygen, not because it cools the fire down