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TIL U.S. income inequality is now the highest it has been since 1928: 1 year before the Great Depression

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PYOrE TIL of Catherine Yasinchuk, a Ukrainian woman who was wrongly institutionalized for 48 years in a Philadelphia asylum because she did not speak English and no one understood her. She’d come to the USA alone at the age of 15, and suffered a nervous breakdown after losing her husband and baby.
Jwnl TIL that a dog named ‘Fido’ returned to a bus stop in Italy over 5,000 times (over 14 years) to wait for his deceased master to get off the bus, even during “violent allied bombardment” of the area and then eventually died waiting at the bus stop..
J1n14 TIL when US President McKinley was shot in Buffalo, the city's best surgeon Roswell Park, was operating on someone else in Niagra Falls. When they told him he was needed in Buffalo, he responded that he could not leave, even for the President of the United States. He was then told who had been shot.
wLdZW TIL Singer Chubby Checker, famous for the song “The Twist”, sued Hewlett-Packard over an app designed to measure penis size called “Chubby Checker”
kXog TIL the term “American Cheese” does not apply to an actual kind of cheese (e.g. Cheddar, Swiss, etc.) but rather processed cheese containing two or more varieties of cheese