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TIL there are 9.63 million millionaires in the U.S. alone.

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e0r0n TIL in Ancient Roman had a rather revealing "bikinis" that are very similar to the ones we use nowadays.
D16Gr TIL on 25th January 1996 Billy Bailey was executed by hanging. He is only the third person to be executed in the US by hanging since 1965. The gallows used were dismantled in 2003 as Delaware stopped allowing death row inmates this option of execution
jNvBQ TIL of Dishwasher Salmon. The Salmon is wrspped tightly in tinfoil to protect it and the heat of the dishwasher cycle effectively poaches it.
yZ1M TIL Hookah is at LEAST as dangerous as cigarette smoking, if not more
xV4lB TIL of the Chinese Dzungar Genocide of 1755-1757. Following a rebellion, the Emperor decided to eradicate the Dzungar. Ca 80% of the population was exterminated in what an historian has called "the eighteenth century genocide par excellence." This event brought the Uygur into today's Xinjiang.