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TIL 90% Of Family Wealth Is Lost By The 3rd Generation

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E1bVV TIL police are called to Walmart stores 3-4 times as often as they are to other big-box retailers like Target. 25% of all arrests in St. Petersburg, FL and 92% of larceny calls in Granite Falls, NC are attributed to single Walmart locations in each city.
PYMjG TIL Lynyrd Skynyrd drummer, Artimus Pyle survived the 1977 plane crash that killed fellow band members. After the crash, he attempted to seek help from a nearby farm only to be shot at by the farmer who lived there.
xV7Xk TIL that Lithuanian politician Artūras Zuokas won an IG Nobel prize in 2011, for “demonstrating that the problem of illegal parked luxury cars can be solved by running them over with a tank”. Zuokas had used an armoured vehicle to run over an illegally parked car in a Vilinus bike lane.
mx6Ey TIL When Al Kaplon lost his job as a minor league umpire, he took his talents to Hollywood and has been an umpire or referee on movies and TV like "American Gladiators", "The X-Flies", and "Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story". He's even been an umpire for a Viagra ad.
0wx6N TIL hoatzins are the only birds born with claws on their wings, a trait exhibited in dinosaurs like archaeopteryxes.