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TIL extreme inequality contributes to 21,000 deaths each day

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DmvP TIL that at midnight on Dec 30th, 1899, a ship positioned itself at the intersection of the date line and equator, such that the bow and stern occupied different seasons, hemispheres, days, years, and centuries. For the ship, Dec 31st never occurred.
R7PPa TIL It is considered bad luck to say the word "Macbeth" in a theater production, which is why production's refer to it as "The Scottish Play"
oBx0Y TIL For at least 15 years (2000-2015) LEGOs were/are a better investment than gold
1a5V4 TIL of a Russian game show where the contestant was given a car that was reported stolen to the police and if the contestant evaded the police for 35 minutes, the contestant won the car.
yV5L8 TIL according to the National Adult Literacy Survey, 70% of all incarcerated adults cannot read at a 4th grade level, “meaning they lack the reading skills to navigate many everyday tasks or hold down anything but lower (paying) jobs.”