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TIL the median American household has a combined balance of $10,000 in its checking and savings accounts

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xVBv1 TIL of the Battle of Cable Street, with saw protesters confront Met police and Blackshirts from the BUF at a fascist march in 1936. A commemorative plaque about the incident reads "They Shall Not Pass".
bbZE TIL that in the middle of the Pacific Ocean there is an area where spacecraft pieces entering orbit generally land, or crash. It’s called the “Spacecraft Cemetery” and its wreckage includes the Mir Space Station.
VLKk TIL If you watch Paranormal Activity (or other movies like that), when something scary is happening your subwoofer will start going nuts. The frequency is specifically chosen, it’s called infrasound, and it has the effect of inducing fear on the listener.
JYWQ1 TIL that Theodore Roosevelt watched Duke Ellington ( a famous black pianist) and his friends play baseball when he was very young
16G6D TIL the concept of digital camouflage (rather than natural organic patterns) now used in most advanced militaries, was first deployed in Canada in 1996.