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TIL extreme inequality contributes to 21,000 deaths each day

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ADQQl TIL that Marilyn Monroe viewed Abraham Lincoln as a father figure once saying “Most people can admire their fathers, but I never had one. I need someone to admire. My father is Abraham Lincoln…I mean I think of Lincoln as my father. He was wise and kind and good. He is my ideal, Lincoln. I love him”
b98Z4 TIL the CCP has 90.5 million members.
Z8OY4 TIL Mae Jemison, the astronaut (Endeavour), is also a dancer, chemical engineer, medical doctor, Cornell professor, and leader of the 100 Year Starship - with the goal to reach another solar system within 100 years
DQdPY TIL that President Franklin D. Roosevelt never supported First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt's anti-lynching campaign for fear of alienating white Democratic voters in the south.
Wk41X TIL that ceiling fans should turn counter-clockwise in the summer and clockwise(on low) in the winter for maximum comfort in hot and cold.