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TIL that 1 in every 20 Americans is a millionaire

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X0J7D TIL that de Day of the Dead parade in Mexico City was actually inspired from a scene from James Bond's 'Spectre' movie in 2015
0wpbL TIL Parasite (parasitus) was an accepted role in Roman society, in which a person could live off the hospitality of others, in return for "flattery, simple services, and a willingness to endure humiliation".
LRnV TIL that GTA: Chinatown Wars is the most complex Nintendo DS game ever made, with more than 800,000 lines of code;
PDbe TIL that Pat Summitt, head coach of the University of Tennessee women’s basketball team, was so successful that the university twice asked her to coach the men’s team.
BrG6W TIL Hugh Thompson Jr., a US Army Major, helped ended the My Lai Massacre with his helicopter crew including Glenn Andreotta and Lawrence Colburn. They were remembered and revered in Vietnam with their depiction in the short Vietnamese film "The Sound of the Violin in My Lai".