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TIL: 90% of wealthy families lose their fortunes in three generations

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x6ln5 TIL when a brig hit an iceberg in 1849 (Hannah), Captain Shaw and his first and second officers took the only lifeboat. They abandoned the 200 passengers and eventually won in court.
8vLZ TIL that a lone Finnish soldier camped in a forest with a rifle and canned food, killing over 700 Soviets in under 100 days, surviving counter sniping efforts, artillery strikes, and an exploding bullet to the face.
Lk5lm TIL The world's most expensive painting, Leonado's $400 million Salvator Mundi, had been sold for $127.5 million 2014, before that for $75 million in 2013, and before that for less than $10,000 in 2005.
loGMV TIL chickens eat mice. Once the chickens are asleep, the mice come out to play.
8Vpb TIL that an astronomical clock was found in an ancient shipwreck. The clock has no earlier examples and its sophistication would not be duplicated for over 1000 years