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TIL 110 people in Russia (0.0000007% of the population) own 35% of all wealth.

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dDyE TIL Marshall Field, the #11 richest American of all time (66 billion) coined the phrase “the customer is always right” and was the first to accept exchanges and openly display prices.
aEZ TIL It’s not possible to delete a Skype account.
OGJ6R TIL about Gene Sharp, called the "Machiavelli of Nonviolence," who wrote "From Dictatorship to Democracy." Translated into over 30 languages, his work influenced global movements against oppressive regimes, showing how nonviolent conflict can dismantle autocracies without violence.
e0mD5 TIL that many media outlets downplay reports of suicide to avoid "Suicide contagion," the phenomenon of vulnerable individuals seeing the action normalised and believing that they should be the ones to do it next.
4eWo TIL that in “The Shining” director Stanley Kubrick was able to film all of Danny Lloyd’s scenes without the six-year-old actor realizing he was in a horror movie.