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YpjX7 TIL that Nicholas White, a Business Week employee, spent 41 hours trapped in an elevator, even though he signaled an alarm, and there was surveillance video inside the elevator cab
p8waZ TIL hummingbirds are continuously hours away from starving to death and consume the human equivalent of 140,000 calories per day to compensate. They enter an mini-hibernation mode (torpor) each night just to survive the suspension of calories.
epmpE TIL the jigsaw puzzle was commercialized around 1760 by John Spilsbury. His design took world maps, and cut out the individual nations in order for them to be reassembled by students as a geographical teaching aid.
xBEk TIL: The quote commonly attributed to the late sir Terry Pratchett “Don’t think of it as dying, just think of it as leaving early to avoid the rush” was actually written by Neil Gaiman
0Mrv TIL that in 2010, 75% of Americans nearing retirement age had less than $30,000 in their retirement accounts.