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TIL the wealth of the .1% richest Americans has roughly quadrupled since 2000.

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wLXpJ Jedidiah Jenkins quit his job and decided to bike from Oregon to the southern tip of South America. His best friend, filmmaker Kenny Laubbacher, came along for the ride. This short film follows Jenkins as he shares what he's learned from his journey so far. “When you’re a kid, everything is astonishing. Everything is new, and so your brain is awake and turned on ... Once your brain establishes a routine, it stops ... the alertness goes away,” he says. By choosing adventure Jenkins is able to reactivate his brain and turn his “hundred years on this planet into a thousand.
4kRj6 TIL For a restaurant scene late in the movie The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976), director John Cassavetes invited a number of prominent Hollywood studio executives to play extras, but then deliberately removed all their faces from the final cut.
Nog1 TIL that the City of London Police are the reigning Olympic tug of war champions.
Y7Ka7 TIL that in 2014 while in rehab, as well as in 2012, the singer Kesha asked her fans to send her human teeth to make art. In 2012 she told Bang Showbiz "I got, like, over 1000 human teeth," and said "I made it into a bra top, and a headdress, and earrings and necklaces."
ea5b TIL Epicurus, the father of hedonism, died from a painful urinary blockage. On his deathbed he still declared that he was happy because his “philosophical recollections counterbalances all these afflictions”