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TIL A psychology study of more than 4,000 millionaires found that people with more wealth are indeed happier with life. They also found that people who earned their wealth were happier than those who inherited it.

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LGA9 TIL Louisiana State Penitentiary was founded as a slave plantation, and is still run as a prison farm to this day
N46b TIL That a doctor named Harold Shipman was a doctor in the Uk responsible for 15 deaths officially, but further investigations revealed he may have killed up to 250 people. Shipman was given 15 life sentences.
ANp6g TIL some boys used to be castrated so as to keep their soprano voices due to not reaching sexual maturity. Their rib cages were also bigger allowing them more lung and vocal capacity. There is only one known recording of a castrato
Eg49w TIL The name of the family in the Swiss Family Robinson is not actually Robinson (which isn't a Swiss name) but refers to the novel being part of the "Robinsonade" genre of literature, referring to Robinson Crusoe
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