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TIL Snapchat founder Evan Spiegel’s networth is $1.5 billion at the age of 24, making him the world’s youngest billionaire

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xV80D TIL that gays in Hong Kong started using the word "comrade" (同志) in the '80s as a way to spite the Chinese Communist Party for its mistreatment of sexual minorities in the mainland. Today, it is one of the primary terms LGBT people in the Chinese-speaking world use to refer to one another.
woxKo TIL that Austria, Sweden, Finland, Ireland, and Switzerland were technically "third world countries", because they were not officially aligned with NATO (first world) or the Warsaw Pact (second world) during the Cold War. The term does not actually have anything to do with quality of life.
YoDx TIL the Trans-Siberian Orchestra’s path to success was unusual in that TSO is the first major rock band to go straight to theaters and arenas, having never played at a club, never having an opening act and never being an opening act.
rR1d0 TIL the East German secret police preferred not to arrest people, but rather use "biodegradation" to paralyze enemies of the state: organizing failures at their workplace, destroying their friendships, and ruining their reputation.
yVDrp TIL On the eve of the american revolution, Ben Franklin's son William was colonial governor of New Jersey. When the elder Franklin clashed with colonial authorities, his son adviced him to "take him meds and retire". During the war, William Franklin became the leader of the loyalists