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TIL those who pay off their credit card balance each month are known as “deadbeats” in the financial world

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YpwlG TIL that Al Stewart quit song writing in the 1970s & moved to London to play cover songs. His neighbor Paul Simon rejuvenated his passion & happenstance led him to write "Year of the Cat." He thought it had no commercial appeal so he made it the last track on a 1976 album. It still pays his rent.
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OG6y6 TIL only 17% of the global population lives in “fully developed” countries (HDI > 0.8)
WkXEd TIL of the Basus war, a 40 year conflict between two cousin tribes during late antiquity in Arabia over the killing of a camel.