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TIL only 45% of American billionaires went to an elite college or university. Of those that did, 11% of them went to Harvard.

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oRkQK TIL 85,200 Swiss women lost their citizenships between 1848-1952 when marrying foreigners due to the "marriage rule".
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e0P9g TIL that in a Roman hospital doctors used to hide Jews from Nazi troops by putting them in quarantine for the extremely contagious "K syndrome". The syndrome didn't actually exist, but the soldiers wouldn't dare enter these rooms.