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TIL 60% of the world's billionaires are self-made, 20% have inherited their fortune and 20% have both inherited and grown their wealth.

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GAeQj TIL Joseph Goebbels (Nazi minister of Propaganda) funded the development of a low-cost Radio ("Volksempfänger", the “people’s receiver”) which delivered State-Run "news" directly into the homes of German citizens. It was a "vital element of success" in the spreading Nazi ideology.
oRlNA TIL about "The Genius Killer," Edward H. Rulloff, a serial killer with a genius-level intellect whose brain is on display at Cornell University. His last words were, "Hurry it up! I want to be in hell in time for dinner."
ANREg TIL when Mongol fleets under Kublai Khan attacked Japan in 1274 and 1281, typhoons struck both times, causing significant damage to the fleets. Japan successfully repelled the invasions, and the Mongols never attacked again. The typhoons are called "kamikaze" and are said to have saved Japan.
MeMKA TIL researchers in Japan came up with a fire alarm that emits the pungent odour of wasabi to alert people with hearing impairments of a fire. They tested this on 14 subjects, and 13 of them, including 4 deaf subjects, woke up within 2 minutes. It turned out that the 14th subject had a blocked nose.
8eQe8 TIL that Sugar Ray Robinson had won all but one of his previous 132 fights, when he was defeated by unknown British boxer Randolph Turpin in 1951. Turpin became the first Brit to hold the middleweight championship since 1891