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TIL as of 2020, 78.7% of Singapore residents live in public housing, down from a high of 88.0% in 2000

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16oVO TIL a young Thomas Edison helped another inventor, Samuel Laws, design telegraph machines. He expected to be paid a few hundred dollars but Laws instead gave $40,000, which allowed Edison to afford a new research laboratory and factory. There, he amassed 300 employees and developed 50 inventions.
j6k9j TIL Anne Frank’s father Otto earned 2 Iron Crosses fighting at the Somme and Cambrai in WW1 before surviving Auschwitz
KyZG TIL Bicycles have no speed limits in the UK, but you can get charged with ‘cycling furiously’.
81Z4 TIL that Watchmen, considered one of the greatest graphic novels of all-time, also inspired the infamous typeface, comic sans.
loEO7 TIL The surviving heir to China's imperial dynasty worked in Beijing, had no regrets, and thought his own simple life immeasurably superior to those of his ancestors. "I don't envy them at all. My guess is that even if they lived in palaces, they must have spent every waking moment worrying."