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TIL that up to half of the people who buy vinyl records do not listen to them.

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gMY99 TIL that Hungarian mathematician Paul Erdős worked on mathematics for up to 20 hours a day and at the end of his life had output a mathematical yield of roughly 1,500 papers, an order of magnitude higher than his most prolific and famous colleagues. Of these roughly 1,500 papers 507 were co-written.
nxDY TIL There was a German pop star who knowingly spread HIV without informing her partners, and got only a 2 year suspended sentence and 300 hours of community service.
GY6m1 TIL "Seven Days to the River Rhine", a USSR battle plan forged at 1979, which planned to carpet bombing western Europe with nukes so the forces Warsaw Pact could push to Rhine river within a week.
OoyQR TIL that William McAdoo's decision to close the NYSE for 4 months in 1914 to prevent Europeans from selling American securities and exchanging proceeds for USD, and then gold, led to a decisive shift in the global balance of economic power, from Europe to the USA
0EAA TIL From 1994 to 2013: there are substantially fewer murders, robberies, rapes, aggravated assaults, property crimes, and burglaries….despite the US population increasing by almost 60 million people.