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

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78ypL TIL possession of child pornography was legal in Japan up untill 2014
b6rjZ TIL it seems that the Pythagorean theorem was already known before Pythagoras lived. In fact, it's used in a proof on a Babylonian clay tablet that's about 1,200 years older than Pythagoras.
OoO74 TIL that not only did then-future Supreme Court Justices William Rehnquist & Sandra Day O'Connor date during their time at Stanford Law School, but he actually asked her to marry him as well. She turned down his proposal. 30 years later, however, they found themselves serving on the Court together.
p8KBZ TIL 70% of adults in the U.S. have experienced some type of traumatic event at least once in their lives.
rNwQW TIL that the earliest known depiction of a handshake is an ancient Assyrian relief of the 9th century BC depicting the Assyrian King Shalmaneser III shaking the hand of the Babylonian King Marduk-Zakir-Shumi I to seal an alliance.