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TIL that it takes just $34,000 to be one of the world’s richest 1%.

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6ELgw TIL that 6 nations in the EU have banned the wearing of the traditional Islamic burka (similar to hijab) mostly on grounds that it is a cultural clash.
Bgx1L TIL that tire particles are the biggest source of microplastics and we eat and breathe them every day
XEVMD TIL of the Iron harvest, where unexploded ordnance and equipment from WW1 is uncovered by French and Belgian farmers when ploughing their fields each year
rRYr0 TIL the patent for the fire hydrant was lost in a patent office fire.
e0ayb TIL Jerry Springer resigned from the Cincinnati City Council in 1974 after the bad check he wrote for a prostitute was found by police racked up in the massage parlor’s wall with “For Services Rendered” written in the memo. Springer won the seat back in 1975 by a landslide and became mayor in 1977.