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

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M7X1B TIL beetroot juice was actually used as red hair dye in the 16th century, particularly by Victorians.
EgKYX TIL that Alfred Gilman and Louis Goodman wrote 'Goodman & Gilman', the standard pharmacology textbook. AG's son Alfred Goodman Gilman, named for Gilman and his friend LG, was nicknamed "the only person to be named after a textbook". AGG later became editor of 'Goodman & Gilman' and won a Nobel.
YpeMr TIL: Street pigeons (also known as feral pigeons) are descended from domesticated pigeons, not wild ones.
grX8X TIL that the probability finding function of the normal distribution ( Φ(x)) can be approximated to 2^(-22^(141^(x/10))) (Φ(x) is the integral of the standard normal distribution which has a really big fat formula)
OG0D4 Today I learned that a man made hole is deeper than the mariana trench.