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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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vAeK TIL that in the U.S. state of Maine, now famous for it’s lobster, fish and shellfish were once considered poverty food, and people would bury lobster shells in their yards so their neighbors would not learn they were reduced to eating lobster.
xrX5 TIL CIA agents in the 50’s used different lacing patterns to secretly communicate
jNZrj TIL after leaving office, former President Harry S. Truman oftentimes struggled to make ends meet. Despite only having an Army pension of $112/month as a steady source of income, Truman refused to “commercialize on the prestige and dignity of the office of the presidency."
4XblN TIL of Benjamin "Pap" Singleton, also known as Black Moses, who lead thousands of freed slaves from the South to colony towns in Kansas. These black migrants fleeing the South were known as Exodusters, named for the book Exodus in the Bible.
exx4 TIL that Michael Douglas and Danny DeVito were roommates in college.