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TIL 130 million American adults have low literacy skills with 54% of people 16-74 below the equivalent of a sixth-grade level

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XENp8 TIL That every stockholder has the right to obtain a copy of a companies register or shareholder list which is a list of all shareholders and their holdings, that a company must record. The process depends on which state the company is incorporated.This is the same in the UK.
xxp5 TIL The famous author Upton Sinclair was arrested for reading the 1st Amendment in public during a Union meeting supporting strikers. The arresting officer remarked, “We’ll have none of that Constitution stuff.”
jeja TIL at 90 years old Jeanne Calment sold her apartment and the buyer agreed to pay her a monthly sum of 2,500 francs until she died - she lived to 122!
N7gVE TIL that Ol' Dirty Bastard of the Wu Tang Clan has a 90-page FBI file that includes A shootout with the NYPD, drug dealing, illegal possession of body armor, and connections to 3 different murders.
69097 TIL that Keanu Reeves has been secretly funding children's hospitals for years. He reportedly created a private foundation that aids children’s hospitals and cancer research without associating his name with it. "I don't like to attach my name to it, I just let the foundation do what it does."