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TIL that the 100 richest people on earth have an accumulated wealth of 2.09 trillion USD. If they were a country, it would be the 13th richest country on the globe, just beneath Italy and above South Korea.

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E18oV TIL Python's official documentation encourages you to make Monty Python references in your code documentation, since that's what the language is named after.
oBQMY TIL about Balbir Singh Sodhi, a Sikh American man who owned a Chevron gas station in Mesa, Arizona. On September 15th, 2001 he was killed by a Boeing employee as an act of "retaliation" for the WTC attacks. He is listed in the Arizona state memorial as a victim of 9/11
X0Z8Q TIL the deepest humans have ever drilled into the earth is 12,262 meters
xZQ5 TIL Florida Man Carl Tanzler, an X-ray tech, fell in love with a patient and exhumed her body when she died to sleep with her corpse for 7 years. Charges were dropped because the statue of limitations expired by the time anyone found out.
GddQ TIL: A 17 year-old jumped off the Golden Gate Bridge (about 220 Feet) and survived with minor bruising. He did it to impress his friends.