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TIL if you make 25000 USD in a year, you are in the top 2% richest people in the world by income

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9PRm TIL that the Colonel-In-Chief of the Norwegian Royal Guard is a penguin
JGKQ TIL that rubies and sapphires are scientifically the same mineral. Rubies are the red variety and sapphires encompasses any other color, with blue being the most popular and common.
QXXE TIL There is a man still living with no heart. Fully conscious, speaking, and feeling yet he just doesnt have a pulse.
8o78 TIL that thalidomide, the infamous morning sickness drug that caused severe birth defects, was never approved for use in the US because of a single reviewer at the FDA who didn’t think it had been tested enough, and resisted industry pressure to approve the drug anyway.
m1jLx TIL that in 1926, the Poltiburo of the Soviet Union was made up of seven men, Joseph Stalin, Nikolai Bukharin, Mikhail Tomsky, Grigory Zinoviev, Leon Trotsky, Lev Kamenev, and Alexei Rykov. By 1940, Stalin was the only one of them left alive, having killed all of the other members.