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TIL if you’re an American with over $4,436 in your bank account, you are already richer than 50% of Americans.

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pY85e TIL, the reason for many serial Killers "having three names", such as John Wayne Gacy, Henry Lee Lucas, Lee Harvey Oswald, is actually a convention of media reporting, under the assumption that by using the middle name people with the same first and last name will not be misidentified as the killer.
x8k1 TIL Black Sabbath wrote the hit song “Paranoid” in 20 minutes to fill the remaining 3 minutes of time on their upcoming album. It is now regarded as one of the greatest rock and heavy metal songs of all time.
W7L8X TIL "The Late Late Toy Show", an annual special on Irish TV channel RTÉ, is so popular that 30 seconds of commercial time costs €17,000. In comparison, the UEFA Championship Final had commercial time costing €9,750.
ekxJ TIL in 1885 when Nikola Tesla was working for Thomas Edison, he claimed he could redesign Edison’s inefficient motor and generators. Edison said there’d be $50K US for Tesla if he got it done. After a few months he did and Edison said “Tesla you do not understand our American humor” Tesla resigned.
gMblW TIL about Boris Weisfeiler, a Soviet-born American mathematician who was kidnapped in 1985 — allegedly for his Jewish faith — by the Colonia Dignidad, a Nazi commune in Chile. His fate remains unknown, as several witness have claimed to have seen him in the Colonia even decades later.