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TIL the combined wealth in the world is $360 trillion.

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VBplZ TIL that a fan-made music video for the song Sail by AWOLNATION has 370 million views, over 100 million views more than the official music video
DpEJ TIL there is a punctuation mark for sarcasm. Sarc mark!
NXOKE Today I learned about Nils Gustaf Håkansson, who, at the age of 66, won the 1951 Sverigeloppet—a 1,096-mile stage bicycle race across Sweden. He completed the race in just over 6 days and 14 hours, finishing more than 24 hours ahead of his nearest competitor.
MwK8 TIL Ethel Merman’s last film appearance was “Airplane!,” where she played a man who thought he was Ethel Merman.
R7WOj TIL: When the Nazis and the Vichy government began arresting and deporting the Jews, Si Kaddour Benghabrit Imam of Grand Mosque de Paris made it a sanctuary for endangered Jews. By offering them shelter; and giving them fake identity certificates, to prove they were Muslims, not Jews.