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TIL If you make above $32k/year (USD), you are in the top 1% of the world

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4XNLb TIL the founder of The North Face died of hypothermia
R5eg8 TIL David Busst suffered a leg injury in 1996 so severe that Manchester United goalkeeper Peter Schmeichel vomited on the pitch and the match was delayed while blood was cleaned from the grass.
evrg TIL that in Iran, the US is the “Great Satan”, the USSR was the “Lesser Satan”, and Israel is the “Little Satan”.
5aN9 TIL that the Camden Bench was specifically designed to deter sleeping, littering, skateboarding, drug dealing, graffiti and theft. It is considered emblematic of hostile architecture.
vNw8 TIL in 2012, California became the first state to legislatively recognize the human right to water, declaring “every human being has the right to safe, clean, affordable, and accessible water.”