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TIL if you have no debts and have $10 in your pocket you have more wealth than 25% of Americans

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J1mWQ TIL Popes, at various times, have married, been adulterers, had mistresses, fathered illegitimate children, ordered the murders of rivals, been financially corrupt, started wars and even encouraged English Catholics to assassinate Queen Elizabeth I
nejnr TIL in 2002 when scientists studied a 100-year-old original recipe for veal stock, they identified a fifth taste category that was not sweet, bitter, sour, or salty. Japanese chemist Kikunae Ikeda identified the savory taste as glutamic acid, which he called "umami," or Japanese for "yummy".
wLMQo TIL that Tom Lee, a river worker, saved 32 passengers from a sinking M.E. Norman steamboat on May 8, 1925. Tom Lee Park in Memphis is named after him.
LkpbZ TIL Alexander the Great has a giant glass barrel made. He sat in it and had people lower it into the water so he could look at fish.
lDmr TIL the term ‘fairy-locks’, which originated in the mid to late 1500s, is another word for dreadlocks. It was believed when the fairies played in your hair at night they would knot it up; and it was bad luck to untangle.