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TIL the top 25 hedge fund managers in America make more than all the country’s kindergarten teachers combined

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E17Jo TIL there are 18.6 million millionaires in the USA, which is 40% of the worlds millionaires despite having just 4% of the worlds population
vVl8 TIL Samsung just launched the largest ship in the world. It is 12 times larger than the Titanic.
jLyQ TIL that Martin Luther King, Jr.’s family filed a civil case in 1999, alleging that his assassination was the result of a police/federal conspiracy, and won. Their restitution? $100, to prove it was not for financial gain.
M7yR7 TIL the first man to wear a top hat in public was arrested for disturbing the peace. The arresting officer claimed the sight of the hat caused women to faint, children to cry, and dogs to bark
X0JvP TIL: That the singer Gabrielle covers her eye because of ptosis, the drooping of one eyelid, a condition she has had since childhood. In public, she covers her eye with sunglasses, an eyepatch, a hat or hair.