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

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5YE0p TIL of Musical Roads, which are highway rumble strips that sound like music when you drive over them. First created in Denmark, they are now found all over the world. One stretch of road in California plays the William Tell Overture.
R7Qla TIL that there was a mail order service called Columbia House that accounted for 15.1% of all CD sales in 1994.
7rQvZ TIL Fragging was a deliberate attempt to kill unpopular officers by soldiers throwing their own grenade at them.
9vMm TIL In Finland they have a unit of measurement called the ‘poronkusema’ or reindeer piss. The distance a reindeer can walk before needing to urinate. It is about 6 miles.
J1aXm TIL in order to prevent certain legal instruments from operating in perpetuity, a Royal Lives Clause may be written into a contract which provides a definite but extended period of time usually tied to twenty-one years past the death of last living descendent of the current British monarch.