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TIL Luxembourg is the wealthiest nation on Earth per capita, where citizens earn an average of $114K

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m1vDP TIL: Sogen Kato was a Japanese man thought to have been Tokyo's oldest man until July 2010, when his mummified corpse was found in his bedroom.
4k9lo TIL in 2012, the FDA recorded 5 cases of people being burned after their sunscreen caught on fire. One instance happened after a person lit a cigarette, another came near a candle, and one near a grill. One cause of this was a sunscreen's defective spray valve which dispensed more than was typical.
OGnLY TIL Henry Kissinger invested $6million into Elizabeth Holmes' Theranos scheme
yV7Ov TIL Giorgio Moroder (electronic music pioneer) once released an album with Michael Holm titled Spinach, whose cover art featured a nude woman covered in the titular vegetable.
OwPg TIL that Sonny Bonno’s political legacy is the Copyright Extension Act of 1998 (derisively called the Mickey Mouse Protection Act), which extended copyright of creative works by an additional 20 years, and is referred to by many scholars as the most naked act of corporate greed in U.S. history.