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TIL 70% of millionaires do not consider themselves "wealthy"

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XEp1Q TIL After WW2, most countries did not acknowledge the treatement of homosexuals in concentration camps in Nazi Germany. Some men were even re-arrested and imprisoned based on evidence found during the Nazi years. The German government finally apologised in 2002.
Eep TIL a British woman with severe Tourettes Syndrome owns a website where she records her own favorite vocal tics, and asks people to illustrate their favorites. Examples: “Batman breast fed my mum,” and “Roman velociraptor training scheme, artichoke speaking.”
4X77X TIL During filming of "A Bridge Too Far" (1977) the Dutch authorities would only shut down Nijmegen Bridge to film for 1 hour during a Sunday. The crew had to get the footage in that hour or else pay $125,000 a day to keep Robert Redford on set; hence it became known as the "Million Dollar Hour".
mxX5M TIL that the 1981 film Roar used real lions during filming, resulting in at least 70 cast and crew being injured. A crew member was scalped, another had his throat bitten out, and and much of the footage of attacks was used in the final cut of the film. The blood seen in the movie is real.
ne95W TIL We breathe (mostly) out of only one nostril at a time, alternating (on average) every 2.5 hours. This is controlled via turbinates--small structures inside the nose which consist of bony projections covered by erectile tissue--filling one side with blood, while shunting blood away in the other.