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

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e0Nn5 TIL When 117 year old Marie-Louise Meilleur became the world's oldest person, she was confined to her bedroom, and she could only hear when people shouted directly into her right ear. One of her sons was also living in the same nursing home, and her oldest living daughter was 90
OoAr6 TIL the Swiss Army Knives are red so they can more easily be found when dropped in snow
v6J8 TIL that Ozzy Osbourne was a target of research about drug resistance, since a normal human was not supposed to survive the amount of drug abuse that he goes through.
d8BP7 TIL that an ex-girlfriend of J. D. Salinger, author of Catcher in the Rye, auctioned off intimate letters Salinger sent her during their relationship. One man, Peter Norton, bought all of the letters for a considerable sum and promptly returned them to Salinger.
RVj6 TIL that the actress who played B'Elanna Torres on Star Trek: Voyager has directed episodes of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Under the Dome, Treme, Heroes, Melrose Place, and Lost.