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TIL wealth and power cause brain damage that effects empathy and being able to see things from other's point of view.

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a7do TIL in 2002, Christopher Dorner and a classmate found a bag containing $8,000 that belonged to the ‘Enid Korean Church of Grace’. They turned it into the police. When asked their motive, Dorner said “It’s an integrity thing. My mother taught me honesty and integrity.”
VMRP8 TIL the Lincoln Memorial was almost a giant pyramid. During the planning process for the memorial various designs were considered and rejected. One design would have had the memorial built inside of a giant Egyptian style pyramid.
XwB6 TIL Twitter makes bank with every company that wants to advertise on on the site. A company pays $0.50-$2 every time a Twitter user interacts with their promoted tweet. When a company promotes in the “Trending” section, they pay $200k per day.
e0vM5 TIL that out of the top 30 100m sprint times, only 9 were run by athletes not associated with doping, all 9 are by Usain Bolt.
v1Rnx TIL that at the conclusion of WW1, Kaiser Wilhelm II mistakenly believed that he ruled the German Empire in a personal union with Prussia, and so he could abdicate the former but still remain king of the latter. This was not the case, and he was forced to abdicate both.