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TIL that Michael Jackson’s first no.1 solo single (and later album title track), “Ben”, was originally recorded as the title track of a horror movie about a killer rat.

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RjB4 TIL that the 100 richest people on earth have an accumulated wealth of 2.09 trillion USD. If they were a country, it would be the 13th richest country on the globe, just beneath Italy and above South Korea.
8ao94 Today I learned that George Jetson was born in 2022. Welcome to the future.
yQN7l TIL of Kodinhi in India, which has the highest twin rate in the world, with over 400 twins in about 2000 families. Scientists aren't sure of why this is, but it has been observed that even when women of Kodinhi have children with men outside of their village, the twin birth rate is still high.
kJy1 TIL the movie Hugo released in 2011 cured a person’s stereo-blindness.
mxp4P TIL that the FBI wrongly accused Steven Hatfill of being behind the 2001 anthrax-filled letter attacks. He was compensated with $4.6 million.