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TIL: 2/3 of US population is one paycheck away from homelessness

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N19M TIL that Puyi, the last Emperor of China, spent his last years as a commoner in Beijing under the communist regime. On his first day of work as a street sweeper, he was lost and told passersby, “I’m Puyi, the last Emperor of the Qing dynasty. I’m staying with relatives and can’t find my way home.”
rRl01 TIL in 2004, Audi designed a fake car specifically for the Will Smith movie iRobot. This eventually inspired the birth of the Audi R8
KOA4E TIL Semantic satiation (also semantic saturation) is a psychological phenomenon in which repetition causes a word or phrase to temporarily lose meaning for the listener, who then perceives the speech as repeated meaningless sounds.
D1WLD TIL that Woody from Toy Story actually has a last name: Pride
b6Z69 TIL On average, captive animals (especially mammals) live longer than wild animals, and animals with shorter lifespans/faster growth rates benefit more from zoos than animals with higher longevities/slow growth rates.