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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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Z8RPv TIL That 200 years ago, Robert Gibbon Johnson ate a whole basket of tomatoes outside a courthouse to prove that they were safe to eat and not posionous!
eO6E TIL of Stanley Meyer’s water powered car, mysterious death, and final words: “They poisoned me!”
GYye4 TIL the slogan "Don't Mess with Texas" began as an anti-littering campaign in 1985 targeted at "bubbas in pickup trucks" who littered beer cans out of their vehicles and ordinary Texans who believed that littering was a "God-given right".
lXQ5 TIL that a woman died at her own funeral from a heart attack caused by shock when she woke up and saw that she was in a coffin about to be buried alive.
Y7apG TIL That in the 1930s Germany developed a 40.6cm naval gun called the "Adolfkanon" or "Adolf Gun". It could fire a 600kg (1300lb) projectile a potential 56km (35mi) at a rate of 2 rounds per minute